Georg Friedrich Meier was a German philosopher and aesthetician. A follower of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was a German philosopher.-Biography:Baumgarten was born in Berlin as the fifth of seven sons of the pietist pastor of the garrison, Jacob Baumgarten and his wife Rosina Elisabeth....

, Meier reformed the philosophy of Christian Wolff

Christian Wolff (philosopher)

Christian Wolff was a German philosopher.He was the most eminent German philosopher between Leibniz and Kant...

 by introducing elements of John Locke

John Locke

John Locke FRS , widely known as the Father of Liberalism, was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers. Considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social...

's empiricist theory of knowledge.

Meier studied philosophy and theology at the University of Halle, where he was a pupil of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten was a German philosopher.-Biography:Baumgarten was born in Berlin as the fifth of seven sons of the pietist pastor of the garrison, Jacob Baumgarten and his wife Rosina Elisabeth....

. Meier succeeded Baumgarten as extraordinary professor, and became a full professor at Halle in 1748.

Works

• Gedancken von Schertzen, 1744
• Anfangsgründe aller schönen Künste und Wissenschaften, 1748–50
• Metaphysik, vol. 1 (1755), vol. 2 (1756), vol. 3 (1757), vol. 4 (1759)
• Vernunftlehre, 1752
• Versuch einer allgemeinen Auslegungskunst, 1757

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