Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb, professor of Philosophy at Frankfort-on-the-Oder; disciple of Wolf; born at Berlin; the founder of Æsthetics as a department of philosophy, and inventor of the name (1714‒1762).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bauer, Bruno * Baumgarten-Crusius