Niklaus Bernoulli

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Niklaus Bernoulli (also Niclaus , Nikolaus ; * 19 November July / 29 November  1623 greg. In Basel; † 8 March 1708 ibid) was the progenitor of the Swiss mathematician and physicist dynasty Bernoulli .

Niklaus Bernoulli was a spice dealer in Basel , there a. a. also member of the Grand Council . He had 11 children, of which the fifth, Jakob I Bernoulli (1655–1705), and the tenth, Johann I Bernoulli (1667–1748), were particularly famous as mathematicians.

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  • Baptismal register Basel Stadt, Sankt Leonhard, 1623–1629, Figure 13 , FamilySearch
  • Basel City Burial Register, 1701–1869, A – Bl, Fig. 105 , FamilySearch