Élie Bertrand

Biography

After having followed studies of Theology to Lausanne and Geneva between 1731 and 1738, it is devoted in 1740 to Lausanne. He exerts like Pasteur during some annéées before d´entrer with the service of the French church of Bern in 1744 like Diacre, then like Pasteur.

He leaves in 1765 for the Poland where he binds with the king Stanislas II of Poland and directs the Department of industry, agriculture and the natural science during one year before d´être anobli in 1768.

He returns in 1767 in Suisse and s´installe in Yverdon where he founds the Bibliothèque (in 1761) as well as the economic company of the city. He is then member various learned societies (Lyon, Geneva, Florence, etc)

His/her brother is the agronomist Jean Bertrand (1708-1777).

List partial of the publications

Memories on the interior structure of the ground (Heidegguer, Zurich, 1752).
Test on the uses of the mountains, with a letter on the Nile (Heidegguer, Zurich, 1754).
historical and physical Memories on the ground tremblemens (Pierre Kid junior, $the Hague, 1757).
Research on the old and modern languages of Switzerland and mainly of the country of Vaud (C. and A. Philibert, Geneva, 1758).
universal Dictionary of the clean fossils and the accidental fossils (P. Gosse junior and P. Pinet, $the Hague, 1763).
Test on art to form the spirit, or First élémens logic (G. Regnault, Lyon, 1764).
Collection of various treaties on the natural history of the ground and the fossils (L. Chambeau, Avignon, 1766).
Letter with Mr. Cte de Buffon… or Critical and New test on the general theory of the ground, with a note of the last speech of Mr. Pallas, on the formation of the mountains, the changemens arrived at the sphere, etc (Besancon, 1782).

Sources

Article on the Swiss Historical Dictionary
Historical of the bottom of the library d´Yverdon

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