Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

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Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was an 18th-century German philosopher best known for founding modern aesthetics as a distinct philosophical discipline.

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instanceOf Enlightenment philosopher
German philosopher
human
philosopher
academicDiscipline epistemology
philosophy of art
birthDate 1714-07-17
birthPlace Berlin
Margraviate of Brandenburg
coinedTerm aesthetics
countryOfCitizenship Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
deathDate 1762-05-26
deathPlace Frankfurt (Oder)
surface form: Frankfurt an der Oder

Prussia
surface form: Kingdom of Prussia
educatedAt University of Halle
employer University of Frankfurt (Oder)
surface form: University of Frankfurt an der Oder

University of Frankfurt (Oder)
surface form: Viadrina European University
era 18th-century philosophy
ethnicGroup German
familyName Baumgarten
fieldOfWork aesthetics
logic
metaphysics
philosophy
theology
genre philosophical treatise
givenName Alexander
influenced German idealism
Immanuel Kant
influencedBy Christian Wolff
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
knownFor founding modern aesthetics as a distinct philosophical discipline
languageOfWorkOrName German
Latin
movement German Enlightenment
rationalism
name Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten self-link
notableIdea aesthetics as the science of sensuous cognition
notableWork Aesthetica
Metaphysica
occupation philosopher
university teacher
positionHeld professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder
religion Lutheranism
sibling Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten

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Christian Wolff influenced Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
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