Louis de jaucourt biography of william hill

This young protestant traveled all over Europe while completing his studies

Louis de Jaucourt was born on 27^th September 1704 in Paris.

After him are Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1742), Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788), Jean Pierre Flourens (1794), Charles Estienne (1504), Antoine Louis (1723), and Adrien Proust (1834).

French born Physicians

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1. Louis de Jaucourt: A Pioneering Encyclopedist
2. Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Légion d'Honneur
3. A Prolific Contributor to the Encyclopédie
4. Overlooked by History, Rediscovered in the 20th Century

Louis de Jaucourt: A Pioneering Encyclopedist

Louis de Jaucourt (c.

There was gathered together in this work a vast sum of knowledge which enabled much progress to be made at a later date in scientific and technical realms. Indeed, after the Edict of Tolerance (1787), one of their descendants, François Jaucourt, played an important role in French Protestantism.

In 1720, Louis began to study reformed theology in Geneva ; this was followed by mathematics and physics in Cambridge.

Among people deceased in 1779, Louis de Jaucourt ranks 12. Before him are Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves (1393), Ludovic Halévy (1834), Claude Berri (1934), Robert Badinter (1928), James Louis Sobieski (1667), and Benjamin Péret (1899). This earned him the nickname l'esclave de l’Encyclopedie (the slave of the Encyclopedia).

Unlike other editors, Jaucourt was independently wealthy and asked for no payment for his full-time labors.

Among the Enlightenment's most prolific writers, his work touched upon nearly every aspect of human knowledge.

Overlooked by History, Rediscovered in the 20th Century

For generations, Jaucourt's significance as a contributor to the Encyclopédie was overshadowed by the towering figures of Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a consequence of his aristocratic background.

In his work he claimed that, to... However, in the mid-20th century, scholarly interest in his work began to rise, leading to a reassessment of his contributions to the Enlightenment project.

Jaucourt was born in Paris.

Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (1767-1830)

He wrote mainly on the sciences, especially medicine and biology. He authored over 18,000 articles spanning a wide range of subjects, including physiology, chemistry, botany, medicine, and political history. Before him are Bronisława Dłuska, Carlos Finlay, Aletta Jacobs, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Dorothea Erxleben, and Fernando J.

Corbató. As a result of this work, he was elected to the Berlin Academy in 1764.

Soon after 1728, Jaucourt started to write a universal medical dictionary in Latin (Lexiconmedicum universale), which eventually ran to six large volumes. After him are Carlos Seixas, Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Charles Pinot Duclos, Andrija Kačić Miošić, Richard Pococke, and John Byng.

He had to send it to a publisher in Amsterdam because of the censorship in France but, sadly, the manuscript was lost in a shipwreck off the coast of Holland.