Joseph de Maimieux

Joseph de Maimieux (born 1753 ; died 1820 ) was a French writer .

Live and act

Joseph de Maimieux was born in 1753. He is best known for its work on a not play back sounds bound font known an attempt to a kind of universal font, which he called "Pasigraphie". During the Revolution he emigrated to Germany and was an infantry major there . In 1797 he returned to Paris . He was a member of the short-lived Société des observateurs de l'homme and various other scientific academies. His book Pasigraphie, premiers élémens du nouvel art-science d'écrire et d'imprimer en une langue de manière à être lu et entendu dans toute autre langue sans traduction (dt. Under the title Pasigraphie or the beginnings of the new art-science in one Language to write and print everything in such a way that it can be read and understood in any other without translation ) came out simultaneously in French and German in Paris in 1797 (“In the Bureau der Pasigraphie”). The preface to wrote Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard . He is the author of a number of philosophical and literary works. He also wrote under the pseudonym La Bractéole . He died in 1820.

Works (selection)

1788: Éloge philosophique de l'impertinence
1788: Le Comte de Saint-Méran ou Les nouveaux égaremens du coeur et de l'esprit . Londres, Paris Chez Leroy, Libraire
1789: Souvenirs d'un homme du monde ou recueil de pensées diverses, d'observations, de bons mots, de faits singuliers, d'anecdotes & d'opuscules. A Leipsick, chez Veltheim et à Paris, chez Maradan, 1789
1797: Pasigraphie, premiers élémens du nouvel art-science d'écrire et d'imprimer en une langue de manière à être lu et entendu dans toute autre langue sans traduction; inventés et rédigés par J. *** de M ***, ancien Major d'infanterie allemande.
- Pasigraphy or the beginnings of the new art-science to write and print everything in one language in such a way that it can be read and understood in any other without translation
1800: Pasigraphie et pasilalie , (Paris, at VIII)
1802: Épître familière au sens commun sur la pasigraphie et la pasilalie
1803: Propylée
1808: Carte générale pasigraphique .
1811: Céleste Paléologue, roman historique, traduit du grec

literature

Ferdinand Hoefer (Ed.): Nouvelle biography générale . tape 32 . Didot, Paris, Sp. 893–894 (French, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Information on Joseph de Maimieux in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .

References and footnotes

↑ See also the Characteristica universalis by Leibniz and the satirist Jonathan Swift (“ improving speculative knowledge, by practical and mechanical operations ”. In Gullivers Reisen ). - See also Stephan Meier-Oeser: The relief from the laboriousness of thinking. Sign-theoretical remarks on the prehistory of artificial intelligence in the 17th century . In: JF Maas (Ed.): The visible thinking. Models and models in philosophy and in the sciences . Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1993, pp. 13–30 ( uni-muenster.de [PDF]).

personal data
SURNAME	Maimieux, Joseph de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	La Bractéole (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French author
DATE OF BIRTH	1753
DATE OF DEATH	1820

[1] See also the Characteristica universalis by Leibniz and the satirist Jonathan Swift (“ improving speculative knowledge, by practical and mechanical operations ”. In Gullivers Reisen ). - See also Stephan Meier-Oeser: The relief from the laboriousness of thinking. Sign-theoretical remarks on the prehistory of artificial intelligence in the 17th century . In: JF Maas (Ed.): The visible thinking. Models and models in philosophy and in the sciences . Rodopi, Amsterdam / Atlanta 1993, pp. 13–30 ( uni-muenster.de [PDF]).