Clemens Baeumker (16 September 1853 – 7 October 1924) was a Germanhistorian of philosophy.

Baeumker was born inPaderborn to agymnasium teacher. He studied philosophy,theology, andphilology in Paderborn and later at theUniversity of Münster, from which he obtained a doctorate in 1877. From 1879 he was a teacher at a secondary school (Gymnasium) in Münster.

Through the efforts ofGeorg von Hertling he was appointed professor of philosophy at theUniversity of Breslau in 1883, where he remained until 1900. In that year he moved to theUniversity of Bonn, and in 1903 to theUniversity of Strasbourg, where he filled the chair vacated byWilhelm Windelband. In 1912 he moved to theUniversity of Munich, 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 ofmedieval philosophy.

• 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 desThomas von Aquino unde seine Disputation vor König Manfred, Munich, 1920.

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz (1975). "Clemens Baeumker". In Bautz, Friedrich Wilhelm (ed.).Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 1. Hamm: Bautz. col. 343.ISBN 3-88309-013-1.

• 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

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