BAEUMKER, CLEMENS. - Philosopher and historian of ancient, patristic, and medieval philosophy, b. at Paderborn on 16 Sept. 1853, d. at Munich in Bavaria on 7 Oct. 1924. In 1883 he was professor at Breslau, in 1900 at Bonn, in 1903 at Strasbourg, and from 1912 at Munich. He devoted himself especially to the study of Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophy. As a philosopher, his attempt in epistemology to reconcile certain idealist demands with the objectivism of Aristotle and St Thomas remains worthy of mention.
As a historian of philosophy, his name remains associated with the extensive collection of medieval studies and texts Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters, which he began to publish in 1891, and with the following monographs: Das Problem der Materie in der griechischen Philosophie des Mittelalters, Munich 1891; Die impossibilia des Siger von Brabant (Beiträge, 2), Münster 1898 (Beiträge, 3, 11),
ibid. 1908; Die christliche Philosophie des Mittelalters (Die Kultur der Gegenwart, 1, v.) Berlin 1909, 2nd ed. 1913; Der Platonismus im Mittelalter, Munich 1916.