Welsh Jean

See also: Welsh (homonymy)

Jean Welsh , born with Paris the June 14th 1632 and died in Paris the April 9th 1707, is a man of the church and scholar French.

He is abbot of the priory of Cuers and keeps Library of the king. He is named boarder geometrician of the Academy of Science in 1669 and is elected member of the French Academy in 1672. Member of the Academy of the Inscriptions, he becomes the perpetual secretary about it. He is mathematics professor, then of Greek, with the Royal Collège starting from 1686; he is named by it inspector by the king, and at once elected syndic by the assembly of the professors.

Cofounder with Denis de Sallo of the Newspaper of the sçavans , it directs the publication of from there 1666 to 1674. The readers of the Journal , who had been indignant at the lack of respect of Denis de Sallo towards certain sizeable personalities, complain soon about the insipidity of the articles written by Welshman, who, in spite of his great knowledge in many fields, prudently restricts himself to quote only titles of works accompanied by some extracts.

Voltaire describes it as “scientist universal” and known as of him:

was the first which worked with the Journal of the scientists with the adviser-clerk Sallo, who had conceived the idea of this work. He taught since a little Latin to the minister of state Colbert, who in spite of his occupations, believed to have enough time to learn this language; he took especially his lessons fits with body some in his voyages from Versailles to Paris. It was said, with probability, that it was in the sight of being a chancellor. One can observe that the two men who protected the most the letters did not know Latin, Louis XIV and Mr. Colbert.

The Breviarium Colbertinum of Welsh Jean appeared in 1679 and was translated into English and was published in London in 1912 - 1913.

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