Georg Friedrich Meier

Georg Friedrich Meier
Born(1718-03-26)26 March 1718
Ammendorf
Died21 June 1777(1777-06-21) (aged 59)
Giebichenstein
Education
EducationUniversity of Halle
Academic advisorsA. G. Baumgarten
Philosophical work
Era18th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolAge of Enlightenment
InstitutionsUniversity of Halle
Main interestsAesthetics

Georg Friedrich Meier (26 March 1718 – 21 June 1777) was a German philosopher and aesthetician. A follower of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, he reformed the philosophy of Christian Wolff by introducing elements of John Locke's empiricist theory of knowledge.

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