Jean Jodin

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Jean Jodin (born June 12, 1713 in Geneva , † March 3, 1761 in Paris ) was a Huguenot , French- Geneva watchmaker and contributor to the Encyclopédie .

Live and act

Jean came from a watchmaking dynasty, his father was Louis Jodin (* approx. 1684), who was married to Marie-Charlotte Lenoir (1681–1731) from Paris. Marie-Charlotte was also the daughter of a watchmaker, Jean-Baptiste Le Noir (1702–1780). The couple had three children, Clermonde Jodin (1710–1777) and sons Pierre Jodin and Jean Jodin, both of whom were also watchmakers.

Jean Jodin settled in Paris around 1732, where he continued his education with a maternal uncle, Jean Baptiste Dutertre (* approx. 1705–1773). In 1734 Jodin founded his own workshop; since he did not complete his master craftsman examination in Paris, he was denied the establishment of a master craftsman's business. Jodin lived and worked on the Rue de Seine in Paris.

The result was continued financial misery, which then led to a lawsuit against this exclusion. In a judgment passed on February 14, 1758 , he was found to be right and so on March 20 of the same year he was officially appointed master watchmaker, maître horloger . From 1748 to 1757 he headed the watch factory of Jean Baptiste Baillon de Fontenay († 1772) in Saint-Germain-en-Laye .

He had a long friendship with Denis Diderot. He worked on the encyclopedia . In 1754 he presented the French King Louis XV. and the Académie des sciences presented a clock that worked for a month without failure and maintenance. He also made a clock with two pendulums .

On August 23, 1734 he married Marie-Madeleine Dumas Lafauzes (* 1705) from Lunel, who also came from a Calvinist refugee family. Her former husband, M. Lafauzes, died when she was twenty-five. As a widow she met in Lyon her second husband, Jean just Jodin. A daughter, Marie-Madeleine Jodin , was born to the couple on June 27, 1741 . In 1750 she was urged to convert to Catholicism in order not to belong to the Calvinist outsiders in the future . She was also under the care of her aunt Marie Jodin, who sent her to six different convent schools, all of which she had to leave.

Jean Jodin died completely impoverished on March 3, 1761 in Paris, while the manufacturer Jean Baptiste Baillon became extremely rich.

Works (selection)

  • Les échappements à repos comparés aux échappements à recul: avec un mémoire sur une montre de nouvelle construction [etc.]: suivi de quelques réflexions sur l'état présent de l'horlogerie, sur la police des maîtres horlogers de Paris et sur la nature de leurs statuts Marc Chapuis, Lausanne 1762.
  • Examination of the dernières observations de M. de La Lande, insérées dans le "Mercure" de juillet dernier. (1755)

literature

  • Carl Schulte: Lexicon of watchmaking. Emil Huebners Verlag, Bautzen 1902
  • SR Epstein; Maarten Prak: Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400–1800. Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN 1-139-47107-4 .
  • Felicia Gordon; Philip Nicholas Furbank; Marie-Madeleine Jodin: Marie Madeleine Jodin, 1741–1790: actress, philosopher, and feminist. Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham 2002, ISBN 978-0-7546-0224-8 .
  • Felicia Gordon: Filles publiques or Public Women: the Actress as Citizen Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741–90) and Mary Darby Robinson (1758–1800). Pp. 610-630. In: Sarah Knott, Barbara Taylor (Edit.): Women, Gender and Enlightenment. Palgrave Macmillan, London / New York 2005, ISBN 1-4039-0493-6 .
  • Deborah Simonton: The Routledge History of Women in Europe since 1700 to the Present. Routledge Chapman & Hall, New York 1998, ISBN 0-415-05531-8
  • Elisabeth Zawisza: Une Lecture littéraire des lettres de Diderot à Marie-Madeleine Jodin. Diderot Studies 29: 161-197 (2003)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to some sources, the year of birth is also given as 1715
  2. ^ Gillian Wilson, David Harris Cohen, Jean Nérée Ronfort, Jean-Dominique Augarde, Peter Friess (eds.): European Clocks in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Getty Publications, 2013, ISBN 0-89236-254-5 , p. 196
  3. ^ Geneva Genealogy Society. Louis Jodin
  4. ^ Geneva Genealogy Society. Marie LENOIR
  5. ↑ Biographical information and references to digitized documents. "Marie-Charlotte LENOIR x Louis JODIN horloger."
  6. ^ Gordon, Felicia: This accursed child: the early years of Marie Madeleine Jodin (1741-90) actress, philosopher and feminist. Women's History Review 10: 2, 229-248 doi: 10.1080 / 09612020100200283 .
  7. ^ Document on the list of assets after the death of Jean Jodin, issued March 17, 1761 Paris (Paris, Ile-de-France, France). Document reference number: AN ET / XLIV / 440
personal data
SURNAME Jodin, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French watchmaker, author and encyclopaedist
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1713
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1761
Place of death Paris