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JAKOB

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• JOHANN JAKOB BRUCKER (1696—1770)

BRUCKER (1696—1770)  , German historian of philosophy, was born at Augsburg . He was destined for the church, and graduated at the university of Jena in 1718 . He returned to Augsburg in 1720, but became parish minister of Kaufbeuren in 1723 . In 1731 he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin, and was invited to Augsburg as pastor and senior minister of the church of St Ulrich . His chief work, Historia Critica Philosophiae, appeared at Leipzig (5 vols., 1742–1744) . Its success was such that a new edition was published in six volumes (1766–1767; English translation by W . 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 Doctrine de Ideis, afterwards completed and republished under the title of Historia Philosophicae Doctrinae de Ideis (Augsburg, 1723); (ilium Vindelicum (1731); Kurze Fragen aus der philosophischen Historie (7 vols., Ulm, 1731–1736), a history of philosophy in question and answer, containing many details, especially in the department of literary history, which he omitted in his chief work; 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

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 . Teller) . He died at Augsburg in 1770 .