Johann Adam Bergk (1769 – 1834, Leipzig) was a German philosopher and publicist.
[1] 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.
[2] He was the father of the philologist Theodor Bergk.