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Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui

1694 - 1748

About the Author

Burlamaqui was born in Geneva to a wealthy and politically well-connected patrician family. He became professor of natural law at the Academy of Geneva and popularized the ideas of Pufendorf by writing and teaching in French rather than Latiin,

In The Library:

• author: The Principles of Natural and Politic Law (1747)