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

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. He became director of the

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gymnasium in 1736. His textbooks propagated the metaphysics of Christian Wolff.

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

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1709 births 1785 deaths 18th-century German philosophers German male writers {{Germany-philosopher-stub