1718 – 1777
Georg Friedrich Meier (1718–1777) was a German Enlightenment philosopher and a leading exponent of the Wolffian school at the University of Halle. He made significant contributions to aesthetics, hermeneutics, and logic, and was influential in developing the philosophical vocabulary of the German Enlightenment before Kant.
Authored Anfangsgründe aller schönen Wissenschaften (Foundations of All the Beautiful Sciences), an influential early aesthetics treatise
Developed a systematic theory of hermeneutics in Versuch einer allgemeinen Auslegungskunst (1757)
Extended and popularized the philosophical system of Christian Wolff and Alexander Baumgarten
Produced a widely used logic textbook, Auszug aus der Vernunftlehre, which Kant used for his lectures on logic
Contributed to early German philosophy of language and semiotics