Pierre-Jacques Willermoz (28 August 1735 – 26 June 1799) was an 18th-century French physician and chemist.

Biography

Pierre-Jacques Willermoz was the son of Claude Catherine Willermoz (1701–1770) and his wife Marguerite Catherine Valentin (born 1710). Among his 12 other siblings were Jean-Baptiste Willermoz (1730–1824), Pierre Willermoz (1734–1793) and Antoine Willermoz (1741–1793).Genealogie der Familie
/ref> In 1761, Willermoz was appointed professor demonstrator of chemistry at the University of Montpellier but he resigned this chair in 1763 and returned to Lyon, where, on the advice of his friends, he opened a course of chemistry which proved very busy. Having been aggregated to the college of physicians of this city, he continued to devote to scientific research the leisure left to him by the exercise of his art. The Académie des sciences belles-lettres et arts de Lyon, whose records contain three unreleased texts, admitted him in its midst. Bound by a close friendship with the agronomist

François Rozier Jean-Baptiste François Rozier (23 January 1734 in Saint-Nizier parish, Lyon – 28/29 September 1793 in Lyon) was a French botanist and agronomist. Life Rozier was the son of Antoine Rozier (a squire, king's counselor and provincial controll ...

, he was no stranger to the writing of the latter's ''Dictionnaire universel d’agriculture''. He also collaborated with the '' Encyclopédie'' by

Diderot Denis Diderot (; ; 5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. He was a prominen ...

and D'Alembert, as well as with the '' Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire universel raisonné des connaissances humaines''.

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Joseph-Marie Quérard Joseph Marie Quérard (25 December 1797 – 3 December 1865) was a French bibliographer. He was born at Rennes, where he was apprenticed to a bookseller. Sent abroad on business, he remained in Vienna from 1819 to 1824, where he drew up the fi ...

, ''La France littéraire'', t. 10, Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1839, (p. 518). * Alice Joly; Jean Lacassagne; Jean Rousset; Lucien Michel; Joseph Chinard; Pierre-Alexandre Tardieu: Pierre-Jacques Willermoz: Médecin lyonnais (1735–1799). Éditions de La Guillotière, 1938

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Frank A. Kafker: ''Notices sur les auteurs des 17 volumes de « discours » de l’Encyclopédie (suite et fin)''. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l’Encyclopédie Year 1990, volume 8, numéro 8, (p. 120)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Willermoz, Pierre-Jacques 18th-century French physicians 18th-century French chemists Contributors to the Encyclopédie (1751–1772) Scientists from Lyon 1735 births 1799 deaths