Brunck, an able French Hellenist, classical scholar, and critic, born at Strassburg; edited several classical works, played a perilous part in the French Revolution; was imprisoned, and, on his release, had to sell his library in order to live (1729‒1803).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brummell, Beau * Brune, G. Marie