death_date death_place birth_place nationality birth_date known_for image article_title name occupation
3 february 1779 compiègne , france paris , france french 16 september 1704 encyclopédie chevalierlouisjaucourt.jpg louis de jaucourt
 louis de jaucourt physician , philosophe , writer
louis de jaucourt

chevalier louis de jaucourt -lrb- ; 16 september 1704 -- 3 february 1779 -rrb- was a french scholar and the most prolific contributor to the `` encyclopédie '' .
he wrote about 18,000 articles on subjects including physiology , chemistry , botany , pathology , and political history , or about 25 % of the entire encyclopedia , all done voluntarily .
in the generations after the `` encyclopédie '' 's , mainly due to his aristocratic background , his legacy was largely overshadowed by the more bohemian denis diderot , jean-jacques rousseau and others , but by the mid-20th century more scholarly attention was being paid to him .
