Ernst Theodor Johann Brückner, real name Ernst Brückner, (13 September 1746 – 29 May 1805) was a German

theologian Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of ...

and literary. He was the only foreign member of the Göttinger Hainbund.

Life and work

Born in Neetzka, Brückner was the younger son of the Lutheran pastor Christoph (Adam) Brückner (1713–1786) and his wife, the pastor's daughter Sophia, ''née'' Trendelenburg (1725–1759). He is thus one of the direct descendants of the important southeast Mecklenburg theologian and superintendent (1696–1765). The Neubrandenburg physician and city and district physicist (1744–1823) was his brother. After a long period of home schooling, Brückner attended school in Neubrandenburg and then the

Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium The Joachimsthal Gymnasium (German ''Joachimsthalsches'' or ''Joachimsthaler Gymnasium''), was a princely high school (German ''Fürstenschule'') for gifted boys, founded in 1607 in Joachimsthal, Brandenburg. In 1636, during the Thirty Years' Wa ...

in Berlin. He studied

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at the

Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (), also referred to as MLU, is a public university, public research university in the cities of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle and Wittenberg. It is the largest and oldest university in the German State o ...

from 1765 to 1767. He became a substitute in Wesenberg (Mecklenburg) in 1770 and a preacher in Groß Vielen in 1771, where he was friends with Johann Heinrich Voß. Through him, he joined the Göttinger Hainbund, founded in September 1772, which accepted him as an absentee in December 1772. After he had an article printed in the ''

Musen-Almanach A ''Musen-Almanach'' ("Muses' Almanac") was a kind of literary annual, popular in Germany from 1770 into the mid-19th century. They were modelled on the ''Almanach des Muses'' published in Paris from 1765. Development in the 1770s The first examp ...

'' edited by Voß, he received a reprimand. In 1789, Brückner became a preacher, then head pastor in Neubrandenburg. In 1772, his dramas appeared anonymously under the title ''Etwas für die deutsche Schaubühne''. A collection of poems did not appear until 1803 in Neustrelitz. Since 1771, Brückner had been married to the pastor's daughter Dorothea (Helena Beata) Fabricius (1742–1802), with whom he had seven children. One daughter, Margarethe (1772–1820), married ''Adolf Friedrich'' (1770–1838), a brother of the painter

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. Bruckner died in

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at the age of 58.

Legacy

Letters from and to Ernst Theodor Johann Brückner were part of a family archive, a large part of which is now kept in the Fritz Reuter Literary Archive Hans-Joachim Griephan in Berlin and, with around 600 units, covers a period from 1557 to 1967. A partial estate is located in the

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* * Partial estate in the Bavarian State Library, Sign. Cgm 5196
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bruckner, Ernst Theodor Johann 18th-century German writers 18th-century German male writers 18th-century German Lutheran clergy 1746 births 1805 deaths People from Mecklenburgische Seenplatte (district)

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