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Louis de Jaucourt, (1704-1779) was a great scholar of the Enlightenment, born in Paris, who studied theology in Geneva. He influenced his readers by his intelligent use of language and metaphor, and by inviting their complicity through sound psychological processes.
Overcoming the Loss of a Manuscript
Today, we are lucky as there is a degree of safety in storing our work online. It might be plagiarised but it is unlikely to be lost. It wasn't so in times past.
The saddest thing about this great man's life was that he worked for twenty years to produce a work of six volumes on Anatomy, but the ship carrying his manuscript sank on its way to Amsterdam, and his labours were entirely lost.
Yet, undeterred, he went on to contribute more articles to the Encyclopédie than any other writer, and he did this voluntarily. He was already wealthy so he was willing to participate without payment. He wasn't as well-known or as popular as some other Enlightenment figures, but later his writing was recognised and valued as important and relevant.
He was strongly opposed to slavery and upheld the rights of black people.
Liberté by de Jaucourt - the Importance of Classical References as a Psychological Ploy
Like other Enlightenment thinkers, Jaucourt conformed to
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Louis de Jaucourt
French scholar
Louis de Jaucourt | |
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| Born | (1704-09-16)16 September 1704 Paris, France |
| Died | 3 February 1779(1779-02-03) (aged 74) Compiègne, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Physician, philosophe, writer |
| Known for | Encyclopédie |
ChevalierLouis de Jaucourt (French:[dəʒokuʁ]; 16 September 1704 – 3 February 1779) was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie. He wrote about 17,000 articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopaedia, all done voluntarily.[1] In the generations after the Encyclopédie's, mainly due to his aristocratic background, his legacy was largely overshadowed by the more bohemian Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and others, but by the mid-20th century more scholarly attention was being paid to him.
Biography
[edit]Jaucourt was born in Paris, the youngest son of an aristocratic family. The Jaucourt family belonged to the Burgundian peasant nobility and had become Huguenots, and was therefore regarded with suspicion by the powers of Catholic France. As he could not entirely rely on inheritance or status to support himself, Jaucourt became a scholar