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Louis de Jaucourt

1704 - 1779

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Chevalier Louis de Jaucourt (French: [də ʒokuʁ]; 16 September 1704 – 3 February 1779) was a French scholar, and the most prolific contributor to the Encyclopédie. Voluntarily writing some 17,000 articles in all, his contributions amounted to around 25% of the entire work. His subjects included physiology, chemistry, botany, pathology, and political history. Following the French Revolution, Jaucourt's legacy was largely overshadowed by those of Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and others. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis de Jaucourt is the 337th most popular physician (up from 348th in 2019), the 2,521st most popular biography from France (up from 2,773rd in 2019) and the 37th most popular French Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Louis de Jaucourt ranks 337 out of 726. Before him are Bronisława Dłuska, Carlos Finlay, Aletta Jacobs, Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet, Dorothea Erxleben, and Fernando J. Corbató. After him are Victor Babeș, Richard Wilhelm, Prospero Alpini, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Friedrich Hoffmann, and Horace Wells.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1704, Louis de Jaucourt ranks 12. Before him are Anne Christine of Sulzbach, Princess of Piedmont, Carl Heinrich Graun, John Kay, Hans Hermann von Katte, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, and Johann Andreas Segner. After him are Carlos Seixas, Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Charles Pinot Duclos, Andrija Kačić Miošić, Richard Pococke, and John Byng. Among people deceased in 1779, Louis de Jaucourt ranks 12. Before him are Karim Khan Zand, John Kay, Casimir Pulaski, David Garrick, William Boyce, and Tommaso Traetta. After him are Heinrich XXIV, Count Reuss of Ebersdorf, Alessandro Albani, Pehr Kalm, Claude Bourgelat, Mohammad Ali Khan Zand, and Johannes Burman.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis de Jaucourt ranks 2,521 out of 6,770. Before him are Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves (1393), Ludovic Halévy (1834), Claude Berri (1934), Robert Badinter (1928), James Louis Sobieski (1667), and Benjamin Péret (1899). After him are Jean Wahl (1888), Marius Jacob (1879), Catherine of Burgundy (1378), Renaud de Vichiers (1198), Jean Prouvé (1901), and Legall de Kermeur (1702).

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Among PHYSICIANS In France

Among physicians born in France, Louis de Jaucourt ranks 37. Before him are Guillaume Dupuytren (1777), Pierre Fauchard (1679), Michel-Gabriel Paccard (1757), Edmond Locard (1877), Édouard Séguin (1812), and Jean-Baptiste Denys (1643). After him are Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard (1742), Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (1788), Jean Pierre Flourens (1794), Charles Estienne (1504), Antoine Louis (1723), and Adrien Proust (1834).

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