Charles-Benjamin de Lubières

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Portrait of Charles-Benjamin de Langes de Montmirail, Baron de Lubières, from the museum of the J. Paul Getty Museum , painting by Jean-Étienne Liotard

Charles-Benjamin de Langes de Montmirail, Baron de Lubières (* 1714 in Berlin ; †  June 1, 1790 ) was a Geneva mathematician and encyclopaedist .

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Charles-Benjamin de Lubières was the descendant of an old Calvinist family from the Principality of Orange . His grandfather Frédéric de Langes de Lubières (1630-1697) was President of the Parlement there in 1687 , Président du Parlement d'Orange . He died imprisoned in Lyon in 1697 because he refused to convert to Catholicism .

Charles-Benjamin de Lubières was the son of François de Langes de Montmirail de Lubières (1664-1720) and Marie Calandrini (1677-1762) from Geneva. His father, also from the Principality of Orange, held the position of governor there. The father also left the principality in 1703. Against the background of further religious discrimination , he fled first to Geneva and then to Berlin. He later became a member of the Prussian army with the rank of major-général des troupes prussiennes and subsequently governor of the Prussian principality of Neuchâtel (Switzerland). The father died in Berlin in 1720 and was buried there.

Charles-Benjamin de Lubières was born in Berlin in 1714, he was the seventh of eight children of the de Lubières family; but due to the high infant mortality rate, he remained the only male descendant of his parents.

In 1732 he became a citizen of Geneva, bourgeois de Genève , later also governor of Neufchâtel and in 1752 a member of the parliament of the Geneva Republic, Conseil des Deux Cents de Genève . On October 22, 1764 he married the Olympe Camp (1709–1785) in Geneva.

Lubières was a member of the Société des Gens de Lettres Genève together with the mathematician and philosopher Gabriel Cramer , Jean-Louis Calandrini (1703-1758) and the attorney general, procureur général Jean-Robert Tronchin (1710-1793).

For the Encyclopaedia of Denis Diderot wrote articles about the likelihood probabilité , the idea idée , and the induction, induction .

Works

  • Éloge du mathématicien Gabriel Cramer

literature

  • Albert Choisy, Louis Théophile Dufour-Vernes et al .: Recueil généalogique suisse.
  • Fred W. Felix: The expulsion of the Protestants from the Principality of Orange 1703 and 1711-13. German Huguenot Society (2000), ISBN 3-930481-13-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thierry Martin: Logique du probable de Jacques Bernoulli à J.-H. Lambert (2006), p. 4 ( Memento of the original dated September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 969 kB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ehess.fr
  2. ↑ Candaux, Jean-Daniel: Monsieur de Lubières encyclopédiste. Research on Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. Année (1993) Volume 15 Numéro 15 pp. 71-96 online
  3. ↑ Family tree (PDF; 209 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Lubières, Charles-Benjamin de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mathematician, encyclopaedist
DATE OF BIRTH 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1790