Jean-Edme Romilly

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Jean-Edme Romilly (* 1739 or 1740 in Geneva ; † October 27, 1779 ) was a Geneva theologian and encyclopaedist .

Live and act

He was the only son of the watchmaker , journalist and encyclopaedist Jean Romilly (1714–1796). His mother was Elisabeth Andrienne Joly (* 1719). His younger sister was called Elisabeth Jeanne Pierrette Romilly (1742-1814).

Jean-Edme Romilly studied until 1763 theology . Three years later he was pastor in a Walloon church in London , Église wallonne . However, he soon returned to Geneva and was recommended to the parish in Chancy . He married Françoise Dorothée Argand (1748–1797), they both had a daughter, Marie Joséphine Romilly (1770–1823). In 1770 he submitted his resignation to the Council of State of Geneva , Conseil d'État .

He was a friend of Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert , Denis Diderot and François Marie Arouet de Voltaire . Jean-Edme Romilly worked, like his father Jean Romilly, on the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers . As an encyclopaedist (Encyclopédie) he wrote the articles on tolerance and virtue, Tolérance et Vertu .

literature

  • Eugène Haag: La France protestante. t. 8, Joël Cherbuliez, Paris 1858, p. 513.

Web links

Wikisource: Jean-Edme Romilly  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogy
  2. ^ Family genealogy
  3. ↑ Genealogy of the sister
  4. ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of 17 volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie (suite et fin). Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année (1990) Volume 8 Numéro 8 p. 114
personal data
SURNAME Romilly, Jean-Edme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theologian and encyclopaedist
DATE OF BIRTH 1739 or 1740
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1779