title: Friedrich Christian Baumeister
text: # Friedrich Christian Baumeister
  
  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
  