Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard
Philippe Guéneau de Montbeillard also Philibert Guéneau de Montbeillard (* 1720 in Semur-en-Auxois , † 1785 Paris ) was a French lawyer, ornithologist and encyclopaedist .
Live and act
As the son of the noble lawyer, François Marie Guéneau (1686–1742) and his wife Marie Colombe Meney (1685–1768), he studied in Dijon at the Faculty of Law, Faculté de Droit de Dijon . He also had an older brother, François Guéneau (1717–1788), and a younger sister, Charlotte Guéneau (* approx. 1722).
In 1742 he became a lawyer. He later lived in Paris for several years and returned to Semur-en-Auxois in 1755. There he married Elisabeth Potot de Montbeillard on November 23, 1756. The marriage came from the son François Guéneau de Montbeillard (1759-1847), Capitaine de la Cavalerie .
With Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon he worked on the Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliére, avec la description du cabinet du roy .
For the Encyclopédie he wrote the article étendue .
Works (selection)
literature
- EC Spary; Emma C. Spary: Utopia's Garden: French Natural History from Old Regime to Revolution. University of Chicago Press (2000) ISBN 0-226-76863-5
- G. Roth: Un ami de Diderot: Guéneau de Montbeillard. Mercure de France, Janvier (1960), pp. 71-91
Web links
- Neal L. Evenhuis: Dating and publication of the Encyclopédie Méthodique (1782-1832), with special reference to the parts of the Histoire Naturelle and details on the Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Zootaxa 166: 1-48 (2003) p. 166, online (PDF; 522 kB)
- Anthony S. Cheke: Data sources for 18 th century French encyclopaedists - what they used and omitted: evidence of data lost and ignored from the Mascarene Islands, Indian Ocean. Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series Vol. 177 (9): 91-117; published on April 28 (2009), p. 97, online (PDF; 1.3 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ biography universal; ou, Dictionnaire histoirique, contenant la nécrologie des hommes célèbres de tous les pays, des articles consacrés a l'histoire générale des peuples aux batailles memorables, aux grands evénements politiques, aux diverses sectes religieuses, etc., etc .; depuis le commencement du monde jusqu'a nos jours. Volume 3 Furne, (1838) pp. 112-113
- ↑ IDREF autorités Sudoc
- ↑ Family genealogy
- ^ Consortium of European Research Libraries, CERL
- ↑ Genealogy of his wife
- ↑ Biography universelle et ancienne et modern: histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes qui se sont fait remarquer par leurs écrits, leurs actions, leurs vertus ou leurs crimes. Philibert Gueneau de Montbeillard (1720-1785)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guéneau de Montbeillard, Philippe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Guéneau de Montbeillard, Philibert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French advocat, ornithologist and encyclopaedist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1720 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Semur-en-Auxois |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1785 |
| Place of death | Paris |