Karl August Baumeister (24 April 1830, in Hamburg – 22 May 1922, in Munich) was a German educator and classical philologist.
He later served as an educator in the cities of Elberfeld, Lübeck, Gera and Halberstadt.
In 1882 he was relieved of his duties in Strasbourg by Edwin von Manteuffel, the governor of Alsace-Lorraine.
[1] For his work involving pictures of ancient buildings, statues and artifacts, he employed "autotypy", a photographic process that had recently been developed by Georg Meisenbach [de] (1841-1912).
[1] Baumeister was the primary author of a highly regarded educational manual for secondary schools titled Handbuch der Erziehungs- und Unterrichtslehre für höhere Schulen.