Johann Jakob Brucker
German historian of philosophy (1696–1770)
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Life
He was born at Augsburg. He was destined for the Lutheran 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 return again to Augsburg as pastor and senior minister of the Church of St. Ulrich.
He died at Augsburg.
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Legacy
Brucker has been called "the father of modern historiography of philosophy." Scholars have credited his work with shaping the modern discipline of the history of philosophy, and have labeled him "the first person to methodically structure the history of philosophy."