Deluc Jean Andre

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Biografie:
Jean Andre Deluc (1727-1817) *)
Swiss geologist and meteorologist, was born at Geneva on February 8, 1727, descendant of a family that emigrated from Lucca in the fifteenth century. He engaged in commerce during the first forty-six years of his life, making occasional excursions in the Alps, including the first ascent of Le Buet (with his brother, G. A. Deluc (1727-1812)) in 1770. Business reverses caused him to settle at Windsor in 1772. He was at once made an F.R.S., and received an appointment as reader to Queen Charlotte, a position in which he continued for forty-four years, affording him leisure and income. According to Cuvier, he ranked among the first geologists of his age. His principal geological work, Lettres physiques et morales sur les montagnes et sur l'histoire de la terre et de l'homme ( 1778), was dedicated to Queen Charlotte. His Recherches sur les modifications de !'atmosphere (1772) contains accurate and ingenious experiments. The dry pile, or electric column, is his chief discovery.
J. Monroe Thorington
*) A.J. 9· .7.
Quelle: Alpine Journal Vol. 63. Nr. 29, 1958, Seite 126


Geboren am:
08.02.1727
Gestorben am:
1817