Louis Dutens
Louis Dutens (born January 15, 1730 in Tours , † May 23, 1812 in London ) was a French writer .
Louis Dutens was born in Tours on January 15, 1730. He became secretary and chaplain to the British envoy in Turin , Lord Mackenzie , then a member of the Academy of Inscriptions in Paris and the Royal Society in London . He later also became the historiographer of the King of England and died in London on May 23, 1812.
The civil engineer and economist Joseph-Michel Dutens was his nephew.
Works
Louis Dutens prepared the first fairly complete edition of Leibniz's works ( GG Leibnitii, Opera omnia nunc primum collecta, in classes distributa, præfationibus et indicibus exhornata, studio Ludovici Dutens , Genevæ, 1768 6 vols.).
He also wrote: Recherches sur l'origine des découvertes attribuées aux modern (1766, 1776, 1812, 2 vols.); some numismatic writings; Histoire de ce qui s'est passé pour le rétablissement d'une régence en Angleterre (1789); Table généalogique des héros de romans ; two collections of very moderate poems (1750 and 1767); Itinéraire aux principales villes de l'Europe (1775); Mémoires d'un voyageur qui se repose (1806, 2 vol.), Which contain his own life story, among others
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis Dutens in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Information on Louis Dutens in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
- Dutens . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 5, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 254.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dutens, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1730 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tours |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1812 |
| Place of death | London |