Johann Jakob Brucker

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Johann Jakob Brucker

Johann Jakob Brucker (born January 22, 1696 in Augsburg ; † November 26, 1770 there ) was a German Protestant theologian and pastor, school rector and history of philosophy .

Life

Brucker attended St. Anna-Gymnasium in Augsburg and was a student of Protestant theology and history at the University of Jena from 1715 to 1720 . His teacher there was the theologian and philosopher Johann Franz Buddeus .

In 1724 he came to the Trinity Church in Kaufbeuren as a Protestant pastor . The rectorate of the Protestant Latin School was also connected to this position and Brucker was its rector and sole Latin teacher for over ten years. In addition to his pastoral, pastoral and educational duties, Brucker devoted himself above all to the history of philosophy during his time in Kaufbeur. In Kaufbeuren he wrote the seven-volume work Brief Questions from the Philosophical History from the Beginning of the World to the Present , which appeared between 1731 and 1736 and comprises 9,153 pages. Contrary to its modest title, this is the first history of philosophy in Germany to capture and critically depict all of its currents up to the 18th century. Their effect was enormous. It brought Brucker enthusiastic reviews in Western Europe and was incorporated into Diderot's encyclopedia . As a result of this publication, he also became a member of several scientific associations, including the Academies of Science in Bologna, Berlin and Munich.

In 1744 Brucker returned to Augsburg, where he died on November 26, 1770 as a senior in the Protestant parish of St. Ulrich.

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Historia critica philosophiae , 1742

With his hard work, his conscientiousness and his sober look, with which he assessed the pending controversies of his time, he created an authoritative work of many volumes on the history of philosophy. Brucker published his Historia philosophicae doctrinae de ideis in Augsburg (1723) . The forerunners of his main work, Brief Questions from Philosophical History (Leipzig 1731–1736, 7 vol.) And First Beginnings of Philosophical History (Leipzig 1736, 1751), was followed by this itself under the title Historia critica philosophiae a mundi incunabulis ad nostram usque aetatem deducta (Leipzig 1742–1744, 5 vols .; new edition 1766, with an appendix from 1767). The excerpt he organized under the title Institutiones historiae philosophicae (Leipzig 1747) has been printed several times and also translated into English (by Enfield, London 1791, 2 vols.), Or, as the translator calls it, "represented". The work is not characterized by freedom of thought, but by extensive erudition for its time with a predominantly Wolffian direction and above all by the fact that, as the first work of its kind, it has become the often more used than admitted basis of all that follows. Brucker also wrote Miscellanea historiae philosophicae, litterariae, criticae (Augsburg 1748, 5 vols.), A picture room of famous writers (das. 1741–1755, 10 decades with copper), a temple of honor for German scholarship (das. 1747–1749, 8 Decades with copper) and edited the New Testament for the so-called English Bibles (Leipzig 1766–1770, 6 vols.).

Appreciation

Johann Jakob Brucker wrote the first textbook on the history of philosophy, also read by Goethe. The Jakob-Brucker-Gymnasium in Kaufbeuren is named after this well-known scholar. The naming ceremony took place on October 29, 1998.

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SURNAME Brucker, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brucker, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian of philosophy
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH augsburg
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1770
Place of death augsburg