Johann Bernhard Merian or Jean-Bernard Mérian (28 September 1723,
Liestal
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Liestal is an industrial town with a cobbled-street Old Town.
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– 12 February 1807,
Berlin
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) was a
Swiss
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philosopher
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active in the
Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin.
Merian studied at the
University of Basle, gaining his doctorate in 1740. He became a member of the Class for Speculative Philosophy of the Berlin Academy in 1750, and director of the Class for Belles-Lettres in 1771. From 1797 he was permanent Secretary of the Academy.
Merian translated the work of
David Hume
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into French. He published widely in the ''Mémoires'' of the Academy. A series of essays on the
Molyneux problem appeared in the 1770s.
[These have been edited and republished as ''Sur le problème de Molyneux'', ed. F. Markovits, Paris, 1984]
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1723 births
1807 deaths
Swiss philosophers
Swiss Protestants
English–French translators
People from Liestal
Johann Bernhard
18th-century translators
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