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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 See also:influence of See also:Wolff's writings he took up See also:mathematics and See also:philosophy on the lines of Wolff and See also: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 See also: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 See also: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 See also: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 See also:account of his knowledge of military See also:engineering, See also:Duke See also:Charles See also:Alexander (1733–1737) made him a privy councillor, but his hands were tied owing to the frivolous See also:atmosphere of the See also:court. On the See also:death of the duke, however, he became a member of the Regency See also:Council, and devoted himself with See also: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 See also:commerce, his See also: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 See also: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.

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life and times see Tafinger, Leichenrede (Stuttgart, 175o) ; Prof. See also:Abel in See also: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. See also:deutsch.

Philos. sett Leibnitz, pp.

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