Branislav Petronijević

Branislav "Brana" Petronijević (sometimes styled as Petronievics) (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранислав "Брана" Петронијевић; 6 April 1875 – 4 March 1954) was a Serbian philosopher and paleontologist.

His major work is the two-volume ''Prinzipien der Metaphysik'' (''Principles of Metaphysics'', Heidelberg, 1904–1911), in which he outlines his original metaphysical system – a synthesis of Baruch Spinoza's monism and Gottfried Leibniz's monadological pluralism into what he called "monopluralism". Influenced by George Berkeley and G.W.F. Hegel, Petronijević held that our immediate experience is the source of basic logical and metaphysical axioms – what he called "empirio-rationalist" epistemology.

In the field of palaeontology, Petronijević was the first to distinguish between the genera ''Archaeopteryx'' and ''Archaeornis''. However, most of his taxonomic interpretations were later abandoned. He also discovered new characteristics of the genera ''Tritylodon'' and ''Moeritherium''. Provided by Wikipedia