Books/Writings
Alexander Baumgarten
1714 – 1762
German

Philosopher. His work Esthetica contributed to the adoption of the term esthetics to connote the philosophical and critical study of beauty.

Contemporaries
1700–1760Nicolaus Zinzendorf
1679–1754Christian Wolff
1730–1794Frederick Steuben
1759–1805Friedrich Schiller
1743–1812Meyer Rothschild
1720–1797Freiherr von Münchhausen
1646–1716Gottfried Leibniz
1724–1804Immanuel Kant
1744–1803Johann Herder
1755–1843Samuel Hahnemann
1749–1832Johann Goethe
1762–1814Johann Fichte
1747–1794Gottfried Bürger
1739–1807Anna Amalia