Background
He was born on the Land van Cadzand (locally Kezand), then a small island in Zeeland.
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John Bruckner
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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.
Career
In 1752 an elder of the Norwich Walloon church that leased the church of Saint Mary the Less, seeking a successor to Michel Olivier Vallotton as pastor, recruited Bruckner, who could preach in Latin, Dutch, French, and English. And he came in Norwich in 1753. In addition to his duties at Saint Mary the Less, he succeeded Doctor van Sarn, about 1766, as pastor of the Norwich Dutch church who used the choir of the church of Saint John the Baptist.
These duties were light, and lessened.
Bruckner held the joint charge till his death, and was the last regular minister of either church. He taught French, Amelia Opie being among his pupils, and acted as organist.
He also took part in the Norwich literary circle. He committed suicide at Norwich, while suffering from depression, on Saturday, 12 May 1804.
He was buried at Guist, near Foulsham, Norfolk.
John Opie painted his portrait, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1800. One of Amelia Opie"s ‘Lays’ is about this portrait.
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Netherlands