See also: Laveaux
Jean-Charles Laveaux , known as Jean-Charles Thibault de Laveaux , born with Troyes the November 17th 1749 and died in Paris the March 15th 1827, is a grammairien and lexicographer French. Also journalist, historian and translator, he is the author of several Dictionnaire S among which its synonymic Dictionnaire and its Dictionnaire reasoned of the grammatical and literary difficulties made date in the history of the French lexicography.
Biography
After studies in Troyes and Paris, Jean-Charles Laveaux is professor of French language to Basle, then professor of French Littérature with Stuttgart and Berlin, where Frederic II invited it to take part in historical work on Prussian monarchy .
Of return in France in 1791, it directs the political and literary newspaper the Mail of Strasbourg , then settles one year later in Paris where he is editor association of the Journal of the Mountain during the Terreur. After several stays in prison, he forsakes the policy and becomes professor of old languages, then head clerk to the prefecture of the the Seine under the Consulat and general inspector of the prisons and old people's homes of the Seine under the Empire, station of which he is relieved with the Restauration.
Principal publications
- theoretical and practical Course of language and French literature (2 volumes, 1784-1785) Text in line 1 2
- French-German Dictionary and German-French (2 volumes, 1784-1785; 1803)
- Eusèbe, or Beautiful profits of the virtue in the century when we live (1785)
- Vie of Frederic II, king de Prusse, accompanied by remarks, supporting documents, and of a great number of anecdotes whose majority still were not published (7 volumes, 1787-1789)
- Of Prussian Monarchy under Frederic Large the (with Jakob von Mauvillon, 8 volumes, 1788)
- Frederic II, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques d' Alembert and the Academy of Berlin avenged for the perpetual Secretary of this academy (Formey), or Mr. Formey painted by itself with several letters curious about Mr. Voltaire (1789)
- Newspaper of civics and political dedicated to the citizens in good faith (1793)
- History of the first free people which lived France (with Nicolas Moutardier, 3 volumes, 1798)
- Histoire of Pierre III, emperor of Russia, followed secret History of the loves and principal mercies of Catherine II (3 volumes, 1798)
- Nouveau dictionary of the French language (2 volumes, 1820; 1828)
- Dictionary reasoned of the grammatical and literary difficulties of the French language (1818; 1822). Republished by its grandson, Charles Marty-Laveaux, in 1846. Text in line
- New portable dictionary of the French language (1825) Text in synonymic line
- Dictionary of the French language (1826)
; Posthumous editions
- Works of Frederic II, king de Prusse (15 volumes, 1788)
- Dictionary of the French Academy, increased of more than twenty thousand words (1842)
; Translations
- Christoph Martin Wieland: Musarion, or the Philosophy of the Graces (1780) Text in line
- Érasme: Praise of the madness (1782)
- Michael Ignaz Schmidt: History of the Germans (8 volumes, 1784-1789)
- Ludwig Müller: Table of the wars of Frederic the Large one, or illustrated Plans of twenty-six pitched battles or essential combat given in the three wars of Silesia, with a precise explanation of each battle (1785)
- Johann Martin Miller: Siegwart (2 volumes, 1785)
- Marcus Elieser Bloch: Ichthyologie, or general and particular Natural history of fish, with enluminées figures (6 volumes, 1785-1797)
- Franz Georg Anton von Miller: Tactical pure for the infantry, the cavalry and the artillery (2 volumes, 1788)
- Georg Joachim Zollikofer: Sermons on the price of the most important things of this world, follow-ups of Exercises of piety (2 volumes, 1798)
; Journalism
- Newspaper of the Mountain (1793-1794) Booklets in line