Victor Brochard


Victor Charles Louis Brochard was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy.

Life

Victor Brochard was born in Quesnoy-sur-Deûle. He entered the
École Normale Supérieure in 1868, and in 1872 was appointed professor of philosophy at the lycée de Pau. After a succession of other lycée appointments, he was appointed lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure in 1886. A few years later he was appointed professor of the history of ancient philosophy at the Sorbonne.
Brochard died in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche read and used Brochard's book on the Greek Skeptics intensively.

Works