Guillaume Barthez de Marmorières

Guillaume Barthez de Marmorières
Native name Guillaume Barthez
Born (1707-03-02)March 2, 1707
Narbonne (France)
Died January 17, 1799(1799-01-17) (aged 91)
Narbonne (France)
Citizenship  France
Fields Civil engineer
Institutions Province of Languedoc
Known for Two entries in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert.
Children Paul Joseph Barthez

Guillaume Barthez de Marmorières (2 March 1707 11 January 1799) was a French civil engineer.

Biography

Son of an architect, he was born in Narbonne in southern France. He became a civil engineer for the province of Languedoc. He was elected to the Académie des sciences et lettres de Montpellier (fr), gained a wide reputation through either his writings or the works he supervised.

He was called upon to edit or contribute two entries in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert.[1]

He was made a hereditary nobleman de Marmorières in 1780 by letters patent of Louis XVI.[2]

He was the father of Paul Joseph Barthez physician, physiologist and encyclopedist who developed the biological theory known as vitalism.

He died in Narbonne in 1799 at the age of 91.

Selected works

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References

  1. Jacques Attali (24 October 2012). Diderot: ou le bonheur de penser. Fayard. pp. 86–. ISBN 978-2-213-66920-5.
  2. Dulieu, Louis (1971). "Paul-Joseph Barthez.". Revue d'histoire des sciences 24 (2): 149–176. doi:10.3406/rhs.1971.3197. ISSN 0151-4105.
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