Johann Jakob Brucker
Johann Jakob Brucker (* January 22, 1696 in Augsburg, † November 26, 1770 ) was a German Protestant theologian and pastor, school principal and historian of philosophy.
Life
Brucker attended St. Ann's School in Augsburg and was 1715-1720 student of evangelical theology and history at the University of Jena. His teacher was there the theologian and philosopher Johann Franz Buddeus.
In 1724 he came as an evangelical pastor at the Trinity Church to Kaufbeuren. By this point, the Rector of the Protestant grammar school was connected and Brucker was over ten years rector and only Latin teacher. In addition to his pastoral, parish official and educational obligations, Brucker dedicated especially the history of philosophy during his Kaufbeurer time. In Kaufbeuren he wrote the seven -volume work Short questions from the philosophical history of the beginning of the world to the present, which appeared in the years 1731-1736 and includes 9153 pages. Contrary to its modest title, this is in Germany is the first history of philosophy, which embraces all its currents until the 18th century and critical. Their impact was enormous. She brought Brucker rave reviews in Western Europe and were incorporated into Diderot's Encyclopedia. He was also the basis of this publication member of several scientific associations, including the Academies of Sciences in Bologna, Berlin and Munich.
1744 Brucker returned back to Augsburg, where he died on November 26, 1770 as a senior member of the Protestant parish of St. Ulrich.
Work
His diligence, his conscientiousness and his sober look with which he evaluated pending issues of his time, he created a respectable body of work of many volumes on the history of philosophy. Brucker issued at Augsburg (1723 ) his Historia de philosophicae doctrinae Ideis. The precursors of his main work, Short questions from philosophical history (Leipzig from 1731 to 1736, 7 vols ) and first rudiments of philosophical history (Leipzig 1736, 1751 ), this was followed by self- titled Historia critica philosophiae a incunabulis mundi usque ad nostram aetatem deducta (Leipzig 1742-1744, 5 vols, new edition, 1766, with an appendix of 1767 ). The held by him under the title of Institutiones extract historiae philosophicae (Leipzig 1747 ) is printed several times and also into English (from Enfield, London 1791, 2 vols ) translated, or, as the translator puts it, " representiert " been. The work is distinguished not by intellectual freedom, but through comprehensive scholarship for his time at predominantly wolff shear direction and above all by the fact that it is considered the first work of its kind, the used often more than avowed basis of all is become the following. In addition, Brucker wrote philosophicae Miscellanea historiae, litterariae, criticae ( Augsburg 1748, 5 vols ), a picture gallery of famous writers (ibid. 1741 to 1755, 10 decades with engravings ), a pantheon of German scholarship (ibid. 1747-1749, 8 decades with engravings ) and worked for the so-called English Bibelwerk the New Testament (Leipzig 1766-1770, 6 vols ).
Appreciation
Johann Jakob Brucker wrote the first read by Goethe, the history of philosophy textbook. After this well-known scholars by Jakob Brucker -Gymnasium is named in Kaufbeuren. The ceremony to name -giving ceremony took place on 29 October 1998.