Jean Benoît Schérer

Jean Benoît Schérer also Johann Benedikt Scherer , Johann Benedict Scherer or John Benedict von Scherer (born September 1, 1741 in Strasbourg ; † October 16, 1824 ) was a French lawyer , historian , topographer , diplomat and freemason .

Schérer was born as the son of the university rector Johann Friedrich Scherer and his wife Marie Salome Lederlin. He studied in Strasbourg and became a Dr. phil. PhD . He then traveled to Jena , Leipzig and Freiberg , where he studied law. After his doctorate as Dr. iur. he switched to the French civil service as a diplomat . He served at the embassy in St. Petersburg and stayed on diplomatic missions in Stockholm , Copenhagen and Berlin .

From 1775 he served in the Foreign Ministry in Versailles . He wrote and translated several books and was considered an important expert on Russia . His memoirs, published by the State Department in 1776, caused diplomatic irritation because they revealed plans for an Anglo-Russian invasion of Japan under Captain Cook . A French fleet under Louis Antoine de Bougainville, however, should rush to the aid of the Japanese emperor. Scherer reacted in his memoirs to the publication of Hayashi Shihei's "Discourse on the defensibility of a lake nation" (Kaikoku Heidan 海国兵談).

After his resignation in 1780, he moved back to Strasbourg and became a member of the city council . After the French Revolution , he moved to Baden-Baden for health and political reasons . For a while he worked for the Austrian War Ministry before accepting a professorship for the French language in Tübingen. His son Alexander Nikolas von Scherer, born from his first marriage to Maria Dorothea Berg in St. Petersburg, became professor of chemistry in Halle (Saale) , later professor of physics in Dorpat .

He was married to Albertine Franziska Nebenius (1758-1829), the aunt of Karl Friedrich Nebenius . From this marriage a son, Carl Friedrich August Ludwig Scherer (1787–1871) emerged.

Jean Benoit Schérer was a Freemason in Strasbourg and had contact with Emanuel Swedenborg and Alessandro Cagliostro .

literature

Ludwig Stieda : Scherer, Johann Benedict . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 31, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 103 f.
Karl Hammerdörfer [ed.]: History of the Ukrainian and Zaporozhian Casaks together with some news about the constitution and the customs of the same. According to JB Scherer's 'Annales de la Petite Russie Etc.' translated from Russian manuscripts. Leipzig 1789. ( digitized in the digital library Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)

Web links

Literature by and about Jean Benoît Schérer in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Jean Benoît Schérer in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
SUB Goettingen

Individual evidence

↑ http://gw5.geneanet.org/seb2067?lang=sv;iz=370;p=johann+friedrich;n=scherer
↑ http://www.sudoc.abes.fr/DB=2.1/SRCH?IKT=12&TRM=107057433
↑ The Japanese Discovery of Europe honda toshiaki and other discoveries 1720–1798, Taylor & Francis p. 55
^ RL panel: Documents Concerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg. Volume 2, Kessinger Publishing, 2004, p. 1248
↑ http://dokumente.ios-regensburg.de/amburger/index.php?id=41524&mode=1
^ Johann Friedrich von Recke , Theodor Beise , Karl Eduard Napiersky : General writers and scholars encyclopedia of the provinces of Livonia. JF Steffenhagen and son, 1832, p. 53
↑ http://dokumente.ios-regensburg.de/amburger/index.php?id=41524&mode=1
^ Supplement to the intelligence sheet of the Rhine district. No. 14, 1830, Speyer, February 15, 1830, p. 108 ( digitized version )
↑ M. Goldish, RH Popkin: Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture. Volume I: Jewish Messianism in the Early Modern World. Springer, 2001, ISBN 0792368509 , p. 219 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Schérer, Jean Benoît
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Scherer, Johann Benedikt; Scherer, Johann Benedict; Scherer, John Benedict from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French lawyer, historian, topographer, diplomat and Freemason
DATE OF BIRTH	September 1, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH	Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH	October 16, 1824

[1] ttp://gw5.geneanet.org/seb2067?lang=sv;iz=370;p=johann+friedrich;n=scherer

[2] ttp://www.sudoc.abes.fr/DB=2.1/SRCH?IKT=12&TRM=107057433

[3] The Japanese Discovery of Europe honda toshiaki and other discoveries 1720–1798, Taylor & Francis p. 55

[4] RL panel: Documents Concerning the Life and Character of Emanuel Swedenborg. Volume 2, Kessinger Publishing, 2004, p. 1248

[5] ttp://dokumente.ios-regensburg.de/amburger/index.php?id=41524&mode=1

[6] Johann Friedrich von Recke , Theodor Beise , Karl Eduard Napiersky : General writers and scholars encyclopedia of the provinces of Livonia. JF Steffenhagen and son, 1832, p. 53

[7] ttp://dokumente.ios-regensburg.de/amburger/index.php?id=41524&mode=1

[8] Supplement to the intelligence sheet of the Rhine district. No. 14, 1830, Speyer, February 15, 1830, p. 108 ( digitized version )

[9] M. Goldish, RH Popkin: Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture. Volume I: Jewish Messianism in the Early Modern World. Springer, 2001, ISBN 0792368509 , p. 219 ( digitized version )