Louis de Jaucourt ( fr. Louis de Jaucourt ; September 16, 1704 - February 3, 1779 , Compiegne ) - French philosopher-educator, cavalier of the Order of the Legion of Honor (Chevalier encyclopedist Louis de Jaucourt died 23 years before Napoleon established the Order of the Legion of Honor. Among the cavaliers of the Bolshoi The cross of this award includes the Count and Marquis Francois de Jaucourt, Dragoon General of the Royal Army and Republican Vice Director of the Department of the Seine and Marne), one of the compilers of the Encyclopedia . He has written over 18 thousand articles on various subjects, including physiology , chemistry , botany , medicine and political history . For many generations, de Jaucourt, as the author of the Encyclopedia, remained in the background against the background of Denis Didro and Rousseau , which is mainly due to his aristocratic past. However, starting in the middle of the 20th century, scientific interest in his work began to increase.
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| Date of Birth | September 16, 1704 |
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| Date of death | February 3, 1779 ( 74) |
| Place of death | Compiegne ( France ) |
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Notes
- ↑ http://www.museeprotestant.org/Pages/Notices.php?scatid=5¬iceid=869&lev=1&Lget=EN
- ↑ http://www.museeprotestant.org/en/notice/louis-de-jaucourt-1704-1779-2/
- ↑ http://www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?category=Paper+%2F+Papyrus+%2F+Parchment+%2F+Vellum
- ↑ http://effigiesandbrasses.com/5683/20184/
Sources
- “Jaucourt's Use of Source Material in the Encyclopédie,” by James Doolittle. Modern Language Notes . The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1950.
- "The Recruitment of the Encyclopedists", by Frank A. Kafker. Eighteenth-Century Studies The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.
- “The Extent of the Chevalier de Joucourt's Contribution to Diderot's Encyclopédie,” by Richard N. Schwab. Modern Language Notes . The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1957
- Enlightening the World , by Philip Blom, 2004.
- Werner Raupp: JAUCOURT, Louis, Chevalier de. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL), Band 36. Bautz: Nordhausen 2015, (ISBN 978-3-88309-920-0), Sp. 650–657 (with detailed bibliography).