Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui was a Genevan legal and political theorist, born in 1694 into a Calvinist family in Geneva and died in 1748. He became an honorary professor of ethics and natural law at the University of Geneva at the age of twenty-five, and his treatises Principes du droit naturel of 1747 and Principes du droit politique of 1751 were translated into several languages across some sixty editions. His synthesis of natural law theory, including his argument that happiness is a natural right, influenced the American founding generation, including Thomas Jefferson's language in the Declaration of Independence.
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RoleGenevan legal and political theorist 2 Place of Death Classification
Field of LawLegal Philosophy and Jurisprudence 1 Role
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1. Wikidata: Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui
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P570 (date of death): 1748
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P570 (date of death): 1748-04-03
Wikidata Q966930, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Geneva
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P20 (place of death): Geneva
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Born in Geneva, Republic of Geneva, into a Calvinist family (descended from the wealthy 16th-century Italian merchant Francesco Burlamacchi of Lucca executed for his Republican sentiments) who had taken refuge religionis causa, he studied law and at 25 he was designated honorary professor of ethics and the law of nature at the university of Geneva.
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Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui was a Genevan legal and political theorist who popularised a number of ideas propounded by other thinkers.
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