Dictionnaire universel de commerce

The Dictionnaire universel de commerce by the brothers Jacques Savary des Bruslons and Louis-Philémon Savary , first published in 1723, was an encyclopaedic trade lexicon, the first of its kind. It was translated into several European languages; the German edition by Carl Günther Ludovici was published in 1741–43 .

The two authors came from a noble merchant family. Her father Jacques Savary (1622–1690) - probably the world's first commercial scientist - wrote the Code Savary in 1673 , which was to regulate French commercial law by order of Minister Colbert , and its explanations two years later in his book Le parfait négociant (“The perfect merchant ”), which became a bestseller. His father had started the trade dictionary before his death in 1690, and his sons completed and published it.

Jacques Savary des Bruslons became inspector general of Paris customs in 1686. The Dictionnaire universel de commerce arose from a list of goods to be cleared, to which he added further terms from trade and industry and the rules and regulations in France and abroad. In collaboration with his brother Louis-Philémon Savary (1654-1727), canon of the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Maur and representative of the Duchy of Mantua at the French court, he created an encyclopedia, which the latter completed and published after Jacques' death.

Web links

• Article "Savary" in the Catholic Encyclopedia [1]