, professor of civil law at Geneva, about 1724, was created a citizen of
, professor of civil law
at Geneva, about 1724, was created a citizen of Geneva
in 1726, and died there in 1760. He published “Four
letters on Ecclesiastical Discipline,
” Utrecht, A
description of the Government
” of the Germanic Body,“Geneva, 1742, 8vo, and a few other professional tracts.
His eldest son, Louis Necker, a pupil of D'Alembert’s,
became professor of mathematics at Geneva in 1757, but
quitted that city for Paris, where he entered into partnership
with the bankers Girardot and Haller, the son of the celebrated physician; and in 1762 settled at Marseilles, whence
in 1791 he returned to Geneva. In 1747 he published
” Theses de Electricitate,“4to, and wrote in the French
Encyclopaedia, the articles of Forces and Friction. There
is also a solution of an algebraical problem by him in the
” Memoirs des savans etrangers," in the collection of the
Memoirs of the Academy of Sciences. He died about the
end of the last century.