Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand
Jean Nicolas Sébastien Allamand also: Johannes Nicolaus Sebastianus Allamand ( born September 18, 1713 Lausanne, † March 2, 1787 in Leiden ) was a Swiss scientist.
Life
He was the son of the rector of the grammar school in Lausanne. His younger brother Francois Louis Allamand (1709-1784) was a theologian and professor of Greek and ethics in Lausanne.
After studying theology at the University of Lausanne Jean Nicolas Sébastien Allamand was recorded there in 1736 with the candidates of the preaching ministry. Then he toured the Netherlands, where he earned his living as a private tutor for some families. Among others, these two sons of Willem Jacob ' s Gravensande, which inspired him for the natural sciences. Therefore, he took in 1740 at the University of Leiden on a renewed study. After the death of Gravensande he gave in 1742 his works out.
In 1755 he came to the professorship of philosophy at the Illustrious School in Deventer into consideration, but got Nicolaus Heinecken ( 1719-1782 ) the preference. In that time dropped his studies to electricity, particularly for the Leyden jar. On March 3, 1747 he was professor of philosophy at the University of Franeker, where he received on April 3, 1748 Honorary doctorate of philosophy. On 1 February 1749, he received an appointment to the University of Leiden as professor of philosophy and mathematics, which task he took on May 30, 1749 the inaugural de vero philosopho. In 1751 he was awarded the contract to set up a Cabinet of Natural History Sciences, which was the forerunner of the science museum in Leiden.
It was in 1753 transferred the management of his assistant, Johannes le Francq van Berkhey. On September 19, 1761, he was also professor of experimental physics, which he remained until his retirement in 1784 took place. In addition, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was 1759/60 Rector of the Alma Mater, which task he laid down with the speech de Philosophia recentiore. He was in 1755 a member of the royal big Britannic Society of Sciences in London and in 1754 the Society of Sciences at Haarlem. He has not released many of their own plants. Rather, it came as a translator of works of other scholars in appearance and as editor of Grave Sands writings.
His marriage to Margaret Crommelin remained childless.
Works
- Memoire contenant diverse experiences d ' electricite. Leiden 1748
- Oratio de vero philosopho. Leiden 1749
- Pensées anti- Philosophique. 1751
- Amicorum album. 1752
- Specimen botanicum de Geraniis. 1759
- Elemens de Chemistry more par Herman Boerhaave. Amsterdam 1752, Vol 1, (Online );
- Oeuvres de Mathématiques et philosophiques MGJ 's Gravensande. Amsterdam 1774