Jean-Philippe Baratier
Jean -Philippe Baratier ( Johann Philipp Baratier; * January 19, 1721 in Schwabach, † October 5, 1740 in Halle ( Saale) ) was a child prodigy and genius voice. He was a mathematician, historian and orientalist and was considered encyclopedic genius who published writings in many areas.
Life
Jean -Philippe Baratier was the son of François Baratier (1682-1751), the Huguenot pastor of the French Church of Schwabach. At age 4, he already spoke German and French, with five he mastered Latin, Greek and Hebrew with 7. He occupied himself with books of the rabbis and the humanities, which he wrote several works at the age of 10 years.
He studied mathematics and astrology and discovered independently several computation paths. He found a method of determining longitude at sea. At the age of 14, he was for a member of the Berlin Academy.
Baratier wrote at the same time a study of public law, and the literature of antiquity and made instantly into Latin, Hebrew and translated French. In 1738 he was taken by the Académie des Sciences in Paris.
Baratier died in 1740 at the age of 19 years to cancer. His life was recorded in 1755 by Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey.