Jacques Necker
In 1785, at age 19, Albertine married Jacques Necker (1757-1825), a captain in the French cavalry. He was the son of Louis Necker and the nephew and namesake of Louis XVI's finance minister, Jacques Necker. The French Revolution ended Necker's military career and, in 1790, he began teaching as a demonstrator in botany at the University of Geneva, a job he obtained because of his wife's surname. She initially wrote her husband's botany lectures for him, but he eventually rose to Professor of Botany at the university. She educated her own children in a wide range of subjects, including science. They lived in Cologny, Switzerland and she became a close friend of her husband's cousin, the prominent writer and intellectual Germaine de Staël.