Baumgarten

Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, was born at Berlin 1714. After studying at Halle, he became professor of philosophy at Frankfort-on-the-Oder. He followed Leibnitz and Wolff, and is distinguished for separating the Theory of the Beautiful from other departments of philosophic speculation, and was the first to use the name "AEsthetics" to designate that science. His chief works are: - Disputationes de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus, AEsthetica (incomplete), Metaphysica, Ethica philosophica, Initia philosophiae practicae primae. He died in 1762.