Georg Brückner


Johann Georg Martin Brückner was a German historian and geographer.
He attended the gymnasium in Schleusingen, and from 1921 studied at the University of Jena. Afterwards, he taught classes in Klein Glienicke, near Potsdam, and in 1831 was named rector at the Bürgerschule in Hildburghausen. From 1841 he was a professor at the Realschule in Meiningen. From 1866 to 1875 he was director of the Hennebergischen Alterthumsforschenden Vereins.

Selected works

He was the author of 47 biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.