Jan Stephan Ligenza Kurdwanowski

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Jan Stephan Ligenza Kurdwanowski also written Jean-Étienne Ligenza Kurdwanowski (born December 26, 1680 in Radzanow , † June 21, 1780 in Lunéville ) was a Polish doctor and encyclopedia .

Live and act

He found his way to France through the Polish King and Grand Duke of Lithuania Stanislaus I. Leszczyński , who was connected to the French royal family through his father-in-law. He worked as an attaché for Stanislaus I. Leszczyński . In France he joined the army and was initially a captain and later a commandant de bataillon, and finally a lieutenant-colonel . As a gentleman he worked for Katharina Opalińska, the wife of Stanislaus I. Leszczyński.

Since June 28, 1753 he was a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences . He wrote an article about the Pile for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .

literature

  • Stéphane Gaber: Un Polonais de l´entourage des Stanislas, collaborateur de l´Encyclopédie: Jean Étienne Kurdwanoscski (1680–1780). Le Pays lorrain (1981) pp. 276-279

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The ARTFL Project. University of Chicago ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2009 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / encyclopedie.uchicago.edu
  2. ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of dix-sept volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Year (1989) Volume 7 Issue 7, p. 144
personal data
SURNAME Kurdwanowski, Jan Stephan Ligenza
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kurdwanowski, Jean-Étienne Ligenza; Kurdwanowski, Jan Stefan Ligenza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-French doctor, military man and encyclopedist
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1680
PLACE OF BIRTH Radzanow
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1780
Place of death Luneville