Friedrich Christian Baumeister

Friedrich Christian Baumeister (17 July 1709 – 8 October 1785) was a German philosopher.

Friedrich Christian Baumeister.

Baumeister studied philosophy in Jena and Wittenberg. He became director of the Görlitz gymnasium in 1736. His textbooks propagated the metaphysics of Christian Wolff.[1]

Works

Philosophia definitiva, 1735. 1767 edition available online
Institutiones philosophiae rationalis : methodo Wolfii conscriptae, 1735
Institutiones metaphysicae : ontologiam, cosmologiam, psychologiam, theologiam denique naturalem complexae, 1738 and 1751
Historia doctrinae de mundo optimo, 1741
Elementa philosophiae recentioris : usibus iuventutis scholasticae accommodata, 1747

References

Kühn, Manfred (2006), "Baxter, Andrew", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 1145

External links

Works by or about Friedrich Christian Baumeister in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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[1] Kühn, Manfred (2006), "Baxter, Andrew", in Haakonssen, Knud (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, 2, Cambridge University Press, p. 1145