Louis de Jaucourt

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Enlightenment figure encyclopedist human physician scholar

Louis de Jaucourt was an 18th-century French scholar and physician best known for writing thousands of articles for Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, making him one of its most prolific contributors.

Aliases (1)

de Jaucourt ×1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Enlightenment figure → encyclopedist → human → physician → scholar →
birthCountry	France →
birthDate	1704-09-16 →
birthPlace	Paris →
citizenship	France →
collaboratedWith	Denis Diderot → Jean le Rond d’Alembert →
contributedTo	Encyclopédie →
countryOfActivity	France →
deathCountry	France →
deathDate	1779-02-03 →
deathPlace	Paris →
educatedAt	University of Cambridge NERFINISHED → University of Leiden →
era	18th century →
familyName	de Jaucourt →
fieldOfWork	encyclopedism → history → medicine → philosophy →
genre	encyclopedic writing →
givenName	Louis →
knownFor	contributing thousands of articles to the Encyclopédie →
language	French →
movement	Age of Enlightenment →
name	Louis de Jaucourt →
nationality	French →
notableWork	Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers →
numberOfArticlesContributed	thousands →
occupation	encyclopedist → physician → scholar → writer →
placeOfActivity	Paris →
religion	Protestantism →
roleInWork	major contributor to the Encyclopédie →
wroteAbout	history → medicine → philosophy → politics → science →

Referenced by (5)

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Collège d’Harcourt →	educated
Louis de Jaucourt ("de Jaucourt") →	familyName
Enlightenment encyclopedism →	hasKeyFigure
Louis de Jaucourt →	name
Encyclopédie →	notableContributor