Urbain de Vandenesse

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Urbain de Vandenesse († 1753 in Paris ) was a French doctor and encyclopaedist .

Live and act

After studying medicine, he was involved in scientific disputes at the Faculté de médecine de Paris . In 1742, for example, the Faculté de médecine was registered with the title des docteur-régent .

The approximately 270 articles for the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert are the only publications that come from him. There were more than 150 articles for Volume I and about 100 for Volume II; his sudden death interrupted his collaboration for the corresponding sections of Volume III.

After Vandenesse's death, Denis Diderot needed a new writer in medicine and pharmacy. On the recommendation of Gabriel-François Venel , his choice fell on Arnulphe d'Aumont .

literature

  • Frank Arthur Kafker: The Encyclopedists as individuals: a biographical dictionary of the authors of the Encyclopédie , Oxford 1988, ISBN 0-7294-0368-8

Web links

Wikisource: Urbain de Vandenesse  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kafker, Frank A .: Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. Année (1990) Volume 8 Numéro 8 pp. 101-121, p. 118
  2. ↑ Williams, Elizabeth, A .: A Cultural History of Medical Vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier (The History of Medicine in Context). Ashgate Publishing Limited (2003) ISBN 0-7546-0881-6 , p. 122 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Vandenesse, Urbain de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French doctor and encyclopaedist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century or 18th century
DATE OF DEATH 1753
Place of death Paris