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 Dictionary of Indian Biography A to C

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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Bernoulli    
First Name(s)  Jean    
Year of Birth  1744    
Year of Death  1807    
Entry  Born at Basle, Nov. 4, 1744 : son of the elder Jean Bernoulli : belonged to a family celebrated as mathematicians : Jean the younger was a great astronomer : from 1763 was in this capacity a member of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin : became Director of the Mathematical Class at the Academy : wrote also on geographical subjects : notably his Description historique et geographique de L'Inde, 1786, consisting of his French translation of Pere Joseph Tieffenthaler's Geographic de L'Indoustan (originally in Latin), Recherches historiques et chronologiques sur L'Inde, by Anquetil du Perron, with the addition of maps by James Rennell : died at Berlin, July 13, 1807.     
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