Jacques Georges Deyverdun
Deceased Person
1734 – 1789
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Who was Jacques Georges Deyverdun?
Jacques Georges Deyverdun was a Swiss classical scholar and translator. He translated Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther into French. He met Edward Gibbon in Lausanne and the two became friends. He also acted as tutor to several English noblemen on the Grand Tour such as Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield and Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet.
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