Louis-Anne La Virotte

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Louis-Anne La Virotte (* 1725 in Nolay ; † March 3, 1759 in Paris ) was a French doctor and encyclopaedist .

Live and act

He first studied medicine at the University of Montpellier . Then he went to the capital Paris and worked on the Journal des sçavans .

He was placed in the position of Docteur régent at the Faculté de médecine de Paris and was there for many years one of the eighteen royal censors, dix-huit censeurs royaux for natural history , medicine and chemistry. At the beginning of the Seven Years' War , in 1757, he joined the army of Westphalia, armée de Westphalie . In the following years he went to the Hôpital de la Charité . Melchior Grimm saw in him a person with a lot of knowledge and literary knowledge and was therefore a strong spirit with pleasant qualities for him.

For the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert he wrote several articles on medical subjects.

Works (selection)

  • Observations sur une hydrophobia spontanée, suivie de la rage. (1757)
  • Découvertes philosophiques de Newton de Maclaurin. (1749)

literature

  • Ferdinand Hoefer: Nouvelle Biographie générale. t. 22 Firmin-Didot, Paris (1862) p. 1019.

Web links

Wikisource: Louis-Anne La Virotte  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Moréri, Goujet: Le Grand dictionnaire historique ou le Mélange curieux de l'histoire sacrée et profane. Chez les libraires associés, (1759) p. 662
  2. ^ Correspondance de Grimm. March 15, 1759.
  3. ↑ 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
  4. ↑ 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. 146
personal data
SURNAME La Virotte, Louis-Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lavirotte, Louis-Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor, military and encyclopedist
DATE OF BIRTH 1725
PLACE OF BIRTH Nolay (Cote-d'Or)
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1759
Place of death Paris