John Seiler Brubacher

John Seiler Brubacher (October 18, 1898 – March 8, 1988)

He attended public high school in Schenectady, New York and graduated from The Albany Academy after his family moved to Albany. He graduated from Yale University with a B.A. degree (1920) and Harvard Law School with a J.D. degree (1923), and spent a short period practising law. He then attended Columbia University Teachers College, gaining an M.A. degree (1924). In August 1924 he married Winifred Wemple. He taught briefly before returned to Teachers College to gain his PhD (1925–27). His books include Modern Philosophies of Education; Higher Education in Transition: A History of American Colleges and Universities, 1636–1976 (with Willis Rudy); A History of the Problems of Education; and On the Philosophy of Higher Education. He served as president of the Philosophy of Education Society (1942–46).

In retirement he lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In 1972, after his first wife had died, he married Dorothy Kohler. Brubacher died on March 8, 1988.