Pierre-Jacques Willermoz

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Pierre-Jacques Willermoz, bronze medallion

Pierre-Jacques Willermoz (born August 28, 1735 in Lyon ; † June 26, 1799 ) was a French doctor , chemist and encyclopaedist . His brother was the freemason and alchemist Jean-Baptiste Willermoz (1730-1824), the oldest of twelve other siblings.

Life

Pierre-Jacques Willermoz was the son of Claude Catherine Willermoz (1701-1770) and his wife Marguerite Catherine Valentin (* 1710). His siblings were u. a. Jean Baptiste Willermoz (1730–1824), Pierre Willermoz (1734–1793) and Antoine Willermoz (1741–1793).

Willermoz was appointed professor and demonstrator of chemistry at the University of Montpellier (Démonstrateur de chimie à l'école royale de médecine de Montpellier) in 1761 , but he resigned from this position in 1763. On the advice of his friends, he regularly organized chemistry courses there, which were widely accepted by the participants. He also continued his scientific research in the circle of the medical profession of Lyon, after they merged in a medical college (Collège des médecins) .

He was accepted into the Academy of Sciences, Fiction and Fine Arts of Lyon (Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon) . Due to his close friendship with the agronomist François Rozier , he participated in the drafting of his Dictionnaire universel d'agriculture ( universal dictionary of agriculture).

Willermoz worked on the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert .

literature

  • Alice Joly; Jean Lacassagne; Jean Rousset; Lucien Michel; Joseph Chinard; Pierre Alexandre Tardieu : Pierre-Jacques Willermoz: Médecin lyonnais (1735-1799). Éditions de La Guillotière, 1938

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data with picture
  2. ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of 17 volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie (suite et fin) . Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année 1990, Volume 8 Numéro 8 p. 120
  3. ↑ Family genealogy
personal data
SURNAME Willermoz, Pierre-Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor, chemist and encyclopaedist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1799