Jean Nicolas Sébastien Allamand – Wikipedia

Jean Nicolas Sébastien Allamand

Jean Nicolas Sébastien Allamand also: Johannes Nicholas Sebastian Allamand (* 18. September 1713 in Lausanne ^[first] ; † March 2, 1787 in Leiden) was a Swiss scientist.

He was the son of the rector of the high school in Lausanne. His younger brother Francois Louis Allamand (1709–1784) was a theologian as well as professor of Greek and ethics in Lausanne. He was the uncle of Frédéric-Louis Allamand.

After studying theology at the University of Lausanne, Jean Nicolas Sébastien Allamand was included in the candidates of the preaching office in 1736. Then he traveled to the Netherlands, where he earned his livelihood as a house teacher with some families. Among other things, there were two sons by Willem Jacob ’s Gravesande, who delighted him for the natural sciences. Therefore, he started studying again at the University of Leiden in 1740. After the death of Gravesande, he published his works from 1742.

In 1755 he was considered for the professorship of philosophy at the illustrious school in Deventer, but Nicolaus Heinecken (1719–1782) was preferred. In that time, his investigations into electricity, especially the Leiden bottle. On March 3, 1747, he became a professor of philosophy at the University of Franeker and received the honorary doctorate of philosophy on April 3, 1748. On February 1, 1749, he received an appeal to the University of Leiden as a professor of philosophy and mathematics, which task he on May 30, 1749 with the inaugural speech the true philosopher took over. In 1751 he received the order to set up a cabinet for scientific history, which was the forerunner of the scientific museum in Leiden.

The management of his assistant Johannes Le Francq van Berkhey was broadcast in 1753. On September 19, 1761, he also became a professor of experimental physics, which he remained until his retirement in 1784. In addition, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was in 1759/60 rector of the Alma Mater what task he was talking about The philosophy of newer lay down. In 1755 he was a member of the Royal Great Britain Society of Sciences in London and in 1754 the Society of Sciences in Haarlem. In 1769 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences in Paris. ^[2] He has not published many of his own works. Rather, he appeared as a translator of works by other scholars and as the editor of Gravesand’s writings.

His marriage to Margaretha Crommelin (Crommelyn) remained childless. His widow married the Swiss miniature painter and entrepreneur Johann Heinrich von Hurter in 1790.

• Memory containing various Electricite experiences. Leiden 1748.
• Address of the true Philosopher. Leiden 1749.
• Anti-philosophical thoughts. 1751.
• White friends. 1752.
• Botany of Geraniis specimen. 1759.

Publishers

• Elemens de Chymie Par Herman Boerhaave. Amsterdam 1752, band 1 ( books.google.de ).
• Philosophical and mathematical works by M.G.J.’s Gravesande. Amsterdam 1774.

• G. C. B. Suringar: Bringing together a collection of naturlike objects for the academic Ounderwijs, around the mid -eighteenth century. First separate lessons about the natural history, by the professor Allamand and about the zoology by Le Francq van Berkhey. In: Dutch Journal of Medicine. H. A. Frijlink, Amsterdam, 1867, S. 265 F. ( books.google.de ).
• Cornelis de Waard: Allamand (Jean Nicolas Sébastien) . In: Peter Johannes Blok, Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (ed.): New Dutch biographical dictionary . Part 1. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 75–77 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org – First edition: A. W. Sijthoff, Leiden 1911, unchanged reprint).
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa: Biographical Dictionary of the Netherlands. Verlag J. J. van Brederode, Haarlem, 1852, band 1, S. 181 ( Historici.nl ).
• The Swiss curator, or complete collection of the Helvetian Enrennes. Benjamin Corbaz, Lausanne, 1829, Band 11, S. 343 f. ( books.google.de , French).
• Johann Christoph Strodtmann, Ferdinand Stosch: New learned Europe. J. C. Meissner, Wolfenbüttel, 1763, Part 17, pp. 209–214 ( books.google.de ).

1. ↑ after other October 18, 1716.
2. ↑ List of members since 1666: letter A. Academy of Sciences, accessed on October 1st, 2019 (French).