Friedrich Christian Baumeister (17 July 1709 – 8 October 1785) was a German philosopher.
Baumeister studied philosophy in Jena and Wittenberg. He became director of the Görlitz 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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