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BRUCKER, JOHANN JAKOB (1696—1770)

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BRUCKER, JOHANN See also:JAKOB (1696—1770) , See also:German historian of See also:philosophy, was See also:born at See also:Augsburg. He was destined for the See also:church, and graduated at the university of See also:Jena in 1718. He returned to Augsburg in 1720, but became See also:parish See also:minister of See also:Kaufbeuren in 1723. In 1731 he was elected a member of the See also:Academy of Sciences at See also:Berlin, and was invited to Augsburg as pastor and See also:senior minister of the church of St See also:Ulrich. His See also:chief See also:work, Historia Critica Philosophiae, appeared at See also:Leipzig (5 vols., 1742–1744). Its success was such that a new edition was published in six volumes (1766–1767; See also:English See also:translation by W. See also:Enfield, 1791). It is' by this work alone that Brucker is now known. Its merit consists entirely in the ample collection of materials. .He also wrote Tentamen Introductionis in Historiam See also:Doctrine de Ideis, afterwards completed and republished under the See also:title of Historia Philosophicae Doctrinae de Ideis (Augsburg, 1723); (ilium Vindelicum (1731); Kurze Fragen aus der philosophischen Historie (7 vols., See also:Ulm, 1731–1736), a See also:history of philosophy in question and See also:answer, containing many details, especially in the See also:department of See also:literary history, which he omitted in his chief work; See also:Pinacotheca Scriptorum nostra aetate literis illustrium, &c. (Augsburg, 1741–1755); Ehrentempel der deutschen Gelehrsamkeil (Augsburg, 1747–1749); Institutions Historiae Philosophicae (Leipzig, 1747 and 1756; 3rd ed. with a continuation by F. G.

B. Born (1743–1807) of Leipzig, in 1790); Miscellanea Historiae Philosophicae Literariae Criticae olim sparsim edita (Augsburg, 1748); Erste Anfangsgrunde der philosophischen Geschichte (Ulm, 1751). He superintended an edition of See also:

Luther's translation of the Old and New Testament, with a commentary extracted from the writings of the English theologians (Leipzig, 1758–1770, completed by W. A. See also:Teller). He died at Augsburg in 1770.

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