John Bruckner (also Jean or Johannes)[1] (31 December 1726 – 12 May 1804) was a Dutch Lutheran minister and author, who settled in Norwich, England.
He was educated for the ministry, mainly at the University of Franeker, where he studied Greek under Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer; and held a charge at Leyden.
), a work now referenced in terms of the history of ecology; it commented on animal populations, from the attitude of natural theology.
[8] Bruckner's ideas were taken from Montesquieu and Buffon, as well as general reading; they were noticed by Karl Marx as the beginnings of modern "population theory".
[10] Other works were: He began a didactic poem in French verse, intended to popularise the views of his ‘Théorie.’ Lines on his own wrinkled and ‘lugubre’ countenance are in Amelia Opie's ‘Life.’ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gordon, Alexander (1886).