Clemens Baeumker (16 September 1853 – 7 October 1924) was a German

historian of philosophy The history of philosophy is the systematic study of the development of Philosophy, philosophical thought. It focuses on philosophy as rational inquiry based on argumentation, but some theorists also include myth, Religion, religious traditions ...

. Baeumker was born in

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to a gymnasium teacher. He studied philosophy,

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, and

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in Paderborn and later at the

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, from which he obtained a doctorate in 1877. From 1879 he was a gymnasium lecturer in Münster. Through the efforts of

Georg von Hertling Georg Friedrich Karl Freiherr von Hertling, from 1914 Count von Hertling, (31 August 1843 – 4 January 1919) was a German politician of the Catholic Centre Party. He was foreign minister and minister president of Bavaria, then imperial chance ...

he was appointed professor of philosophy at the

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in 1883, where he remained until 1900. In that year he moved to the

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, and in 1903 to the

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, where he filled the chair vacated by

Wilhelm Windelband Wilhelm Windelband (; ; 11 May 1848 – 22 October 1915) was a German philosopher of the Baden School. Biography Windelband was born the son of a Prussian official in Potsdam. He studied at Jena, Berlin, and Göttingen. Philosophical work Win ...

. In 1912 he moved to the

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, filling the chair vacated by his friend von Hertling. He died in Munich in 1924. Baeumker was known in particular for his studies in the history of

medieval philosophy Medieval philosophy is the philosophy that existed through the Middle Ages, the period roughly extending from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century until after the Renaissance in the 13th and 14th centuries. Medieval philosophy, ...

Selected works

* ''Das Problem der Materie in der griechischen Philosophie'', 1890 * The founder of the "''Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters''" (since 1891) * ''Die europäische Philosophie des Mittelalters'', 1909 * ''Roger Bacons Naturphilosophie'', 1916 * ''Der Platonismus im Mittelalter'', 1916 * '' Petrus von Hibernia der Jugendlehrer des Thomas von Aquino unde seine Disputation vor König Manfred'', Munich, 1920.

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Baeumker, Clemens 1853 births 1924 deaths 19th-century German philosophers 20th-century German philosophers People from Paderborn People from the Province of Westphalia University of Münster alumni Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Academic staff of the University of Bonn German historians of philosophy German male non-fiction writers Scholars of medieval philosophy