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BILFINGER (BtLFFINGER), GEORG BERNHARD (1693–175o) , See also: German philosopher, mathematician and statesman, son of a Lutheran See also: minister, was See also: born on the 23rd of See also: January 1693, at Kanstatt in See also: Wurttemberg
.
As a boy he showed See also: great aptitude for study, and at first devoted himself to See also: theology, but under the influence of See also: Wolff's writings he took up See also: mathematics and philosophy on the lines of Wolff and Leibnitz
.
Returning to theology, he attempted to connect it with philosophy in a See also: treatise, Dilucidationes philosophicae, de deo, anima humana, mundo (See also: Tubingen, 1725, 1746, 1768)
.
This See also: work, containing nothing See also: original, but giving a clear See also: representation of Wolff's philosophy, met with great success, and the author was appointed to the office of preacher at the See also: castle of Tubingen and of reader in the school of theology
.
In 1721, after two years' study under Wolff, he became professor of philosophy at See also: Halle, and in 1724 professor of mathematics
.
His See also: friends at Tubingen disapproved his new views, and in 1725, on Wolff's recommendation, he was invited by See also: Peter the Great to lecture in St See also: Petersburg, where he was well received
.
His success in winning the prize of a thousand crowns offered for a dissertation on the cause of gravity by the See also: Academy of Sciences of See also: Paris secured his return to his native See also: land in 1731
.
In 1735, largely on account of his knowledge of military See also: engineering, Duke See also: Charles
See also: Alexander (1733–1737) made him a privy councillor, but his hands were tied owing to the frivolous atmosphere of the
See also: court
.
On the See also: death of the duke, however, he became a member of the Regency Council, and devoted himself with energy and success to the reorganization of the See also: state
.
In the departments of See also: education, state-See also: religion, See also: agriculture and commerce, his administration was uniformly successful, and he became in a real sense the See also: head of the state
.
He died at See also: Stuttgart on the 18th of See also: February 1750
.
After his return from See also: Russia, he won the highest respect at home and abroad, and See also: Frederick the Great is recorded to have said of him, " He was a great See also: man whom I shall ever remember with admiration."
Beside the Dilucidationes, he wrote:—De See also: harmonia animi et corporis humani commentatio (See also: Frankfort and See also: Leipzig, 1735; Tubingen, 1741); De origine et permission mali (1724), an account of the Leibnitzian theodicy
.
For his See also: life and times see Tafinger, Leichenrede (Stuttgart, 175o) ; Prof
.
See also: Abel in Moser's Patriot
.
Archiv., 1788, 9, p
.
369; Spittler, Verm
.
Schriften, 13, p
.
421; G
.
Schwab in Morgenblatt (1830)
.
For his philosophy, see R
.
Wahl, " Bilfinger's Monadologie"
(Zeal-
schrift fiir Philos. vol
.
85, pp
.
66-92, 202-231 (Leipzig, 1884) ; E
.
See also: Zeller, Geschichte d. deutsch
.
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