Georg Friedrich Meier | |
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Born | |
Died | 21 June 1777 | (aged 59)
Education | University of Halle |
Era | 18th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Age of Enlightenment |
Institutions | University of Halle |
Academic advisors | A. G. Baumgarten |
Main interests | Aesthetics |
Georg Friedrich Meier (26 March 1718 – 21 June 1777) was a German philosopher and aesthetician.[2] A follower of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, he reformed the philosophy of Christian Wolff by introducing elements of John Locke's empiricist theory of knowledge.[3]