Louis Albert Necker

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Louis Albert Necker (also: Louis-Albert Necker de Saussure ; born April 10, 1786 in Geneva ; † November 20, 1861 in Portree , Scotland) was a Swiss mineralogist ( crystallographer ), geologist , zoologist and delegate of the Diet .

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Louis Albert Necker was the son of Jacques Necker (nephew of the French finance minister of the same name Jacques Necker ) and his wife Albertine. He studied from 1800 to 1802 at the Geneva Academy and from 1806 to 1808 geology in Edinburgh . Necker traveled to the Scottish highlands and wrote a study of the country and its first geological map. After his return to Switzerland he worked from 1810 to 1817 as an assistant professor and from 1817 to 1835 as an honorary professor of mineralogy and geology in Geneva. From 1816 to 1832 Necker was a member of the Representative Council of Geneva , and in 1818 he was a delegate to the Diet . He published scientific works on the Geneva region and Switzerland. Later Necker stayed as a private scholar often in Scotland , from 1841 he stayed permanently on the Hebridean island of Skye in the place Portree , where he also died and was buried. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . He was a passionate mountaineer.

He achieved greater popularity through the design of the optical illusion known as the Necker cube .

Works

  • Voyage en Ecosse et aux Iles Hébrides , 1821.

literature

  • Hans Utz: Scots and Swiss. 1995.
  • Hans Utz: A Genevan's journey to the Hebrides in 1807. In: Studies in Scottish Literature 27, 1992, 47-71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ JD Forbes: Biographical account of Professor Louis Albert Necker, of Geneva, Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Proc. Royal Soc. Edinburgh, 5, 1863. pp. 53-76.
  2. ^ JR Mitchell: On the trail of Necker, from Geneva to Portree. In: West Highland Free Press , July 12, 2002, p. 15.
  3. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed March 24, 2020 .
  4. ↑ JN Wade, RN Campbell. HE Ross, B. Lingelbach: Necker in Scotch perspective. Perception , 39: 2010. pp. 1-4.
personal data
SURNAME Necker, Louis Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Necker de Saussure, Louis-Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss crystallographer, geologist, zoologist and delegate to the Diet
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 1861
Place of death Portree , Scotland