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Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey (31 May 1711 – 7 March 1797) was a German author who wrote in French.
[edit] LifeFormey was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, as the son of immigrant Huguenots. He was educated for the ministry, and at the age of twenty became pastor of the French Protestant church at Brandenburg. Having in 1736 accepted the invitation of a congregation in Berlin, he was in the following year chosen professor of rhetoric in the French college of that city and in 1739 professor of philosophy. On the reorganization of the academy of Berlin in 1744 he was named a member, and in 1748 became its perpetual secretary. He died at Berlin. [edit] WorksFormey's principal works are La Belle Wolfienne (1741-1750), a kind of novel written with the view of enforcing the precepts of the Wolfian philosophy; Bibliothque critique, ou memoires pour servir a l'histoire littraire ancienne et moderne (1746); Le Philosophic chrétien (1740); L'Emile chrétien (1764), intended as an answer to the Emile of Rousseau; and Souvenirs d'un citoyen (Berlin, 1789). He also published an immense number of contemporary memoirs in the transactions of the Berlin Academy. Besides his activities as a journalist or editor, he contributed to the French Encyclopédie. [edit] Publications
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