Late Ancient Platonism in Eighteenth-Century German Thought - International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees 2019 edition

It argues that the German Lutheran Christoph August Heumann (1681-1764) marginalized the biographical approach to past philosophy and paved the way for the German Lutheran Johann Jacob Brucker’s (1696-1770) influential method for the writing of past philosophy, centred on depersonalised and abstract systems of philosophy.