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Jean Ernest Reynaud (February 14, 1806–July 28, 1863) was a French mining engineer and

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philosopher. He was a member of the Saint-Simonian community. He was a co-founder of the Encyclopédie nouvelle.

Life

He was born in

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on 4 February 1806. He graduated from the Polytechnic School in Lyon in 1827 and joined the School of Mines. In May 1829 he began a four month study tour of

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including the

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, Hanover, Oldenbourg and

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. He then spent a further two months studying mines in

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and the

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. He graduated from the mining school in 1830. He was briefly imprisoned in the uprising of 1830. In 1854 he invented a new religious philosophy regarding the transmigration of souls which he saw as compatible both with traditional Christian views and modern ideas regarding reincarnation. He died in Paris on 28 June 1863 and was buried there in

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Publications

*Minéralogie des Gens du Monde (1836) *Histoire Élémentaire des Minéraux Usuels (1842) *Terre et Ciel (1854)

References

* David Albert Griffiths, ', Paris : M. Rivière, 1965.

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Biographical sketch
(in Italian) 1806 births 1863 deaths People from Lyon Politicians from Lyon Moderate Republicans (France) Members of the 1848 Constituent Assembly French philosophers Saint-Simonists 19th-century philosophers French male writers 19th-century male writers École Polytechnique alumni Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery {{France-philosopher-stub