Louis de Jaucourt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis de Jaucourt

scholar

Date of Birth: 16-Sep-1704

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 03-Feb-1779

Profession: writer, physician, Encyclopédistes, biologist, philosopher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt (French: [d? ?oku?]; 16 September 1704 – 3 February 1779) was a French scholar and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie.
He wrote about 18,000 articles on subjects including physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history, or about 25% of the entire encyclopaedia, all done voluntarily.
In the generations after the Encyclopédie's, mainly due to his aristocratic background, his legacy was largely overshadowed by the more bohemian Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and others, but by the mid-20th century more scholarly attention was being paid to him.