Clemens Baeumker (16 September 1853 – 7 October 1924) was a German historian of philosophy. Baeumker was born in

Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for t ...

to a gymnasium teacher. He studied philosophy,

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, and

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in Paderborn and later at the

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, from which he obtained a doctorate in 1877. From 1879 he was a gymnasium lecturer in Münster. Through the efforts of

Georg von Hertling Georg Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Hertling, from 1914 Count von Hertling, (31 August 1843 – 4 January 1919) was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party. He was foreign minister and minister president of Bavaria, then chancellor of t ...

he was appointed professor of philosophy at the

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in 1883, where he remained until 1900. In that year he moved to the

University of Bonn The Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn (german: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It was founded in its present form as the ( en, Rhine ...

, and in 1903 to the

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, where he filled the chair vacated by

Wilhelm Windelband Wilhelm Windelband (; ; 11 May 1848 – 22 October 1915) was a German philosopher of the Baden School. Biography Windelband was born the son of a Prussian official in Potsdam. He studied at Jena, Berlin, and Göttingen. Philosophical work Win ...

. In 1912 he moved to the

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, filling the chair vacated by his friend von Hertling. He died in Munich in 1924. Baeumker was known in particular for his studies in the history of

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Selected works

* ''Das Problem der Materie in der griechischen Philosophie'', 1890 * The founder of the "''Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters''" (since 1891) * ''Die europäische Philosophie des Mittelalters'', 1909 * ''Roger Bacons Naturphilosophie'', 1916 * ''Der Platonismus im Mittelalter'', 1916 * '' Petrus von Hibernia der Jugendlehrer des Thomas von Aquino unde seine Disputation vor König Manfred'', Munich, 1920.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baeumker, Clemens 1853 births 1924 deaths German philosophers People from Paderborn People from the Province of Westphalia University of Münster alumni Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Academic staff of the University of Bonn German historians of philosophy German male non-fiction writers