Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (born 1765)

Franz Xaver von Baader

German philosopher and theologian (1765–1841)

Franz von Baader, born Benedikt Franz Xaver Baader, was a Catholic theologian, philosopher, and mining engineer from Germany. Resisting the empiricism of his day, he denounced most Western philosophy since Descartes as trending into atheism and has been considered a revival of…