Johann Adam Bergk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German philosopher
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Place of Birth: Hainichen, Thuringia, Thuringia, Germany
About Johann Adam Bergk
- Johann Adam Bergk (1769 – 1834, Leipzig) was a German philosopher and publicist.Bergk was professor of philosophy and jurisprudence at the University of Leipzig.
- A Kantian, he defended the French revolution in his Untersuchungen aus dem Natur-, Staats- und Völkerrechte (1796) and translated Beccaria into German. During the Napoleonic occupation of Saxony he frequently came into conflict with the French censorship, e.g.
- his journal "Der europäische Aufseher" (i.e.
- The European Guard) was banned.He was the father of the philologist Theodor Bergk.
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