Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Japanese: ベルナルダン･ド･サン･ピエール（英語表記）Jacques‐Henri Bernardin de Saint‐Pierre

1737‐1814
French author. Born in Le Havre in northern France, he was a dreamy, emotionally unstable man who, after qualifying as a civil engineer, traveled early to the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and Russia, and in 1768 he went to the French Isle (now Mauritius) in the Indian Ocean, where he stayed until 1770. After returning to Japan, he met Rousseau in Paris and was deeply influenced by him. After publishing his debut work, A Voyage to the Isle of France, in 1773, he devoted himself to writing Studies of Nature, which aimed to prove God through the wonders of the natural world, and in 1784 he published the first three volumes, which were a great success.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1737‐1814
フランスの作家。北フランスのル･アーブルに生まれ，夢想的情緒不安定な性格で，土木技師の資格を得ると，早くからオランダ，ドイツ，ポーランド，ロシアを歴遊し，さらには1768年インド洋上のフランス島(現，モーリシャス島)に赴き，70年まで滞在。帰国後パリでルソーを知り，その影響を強く受けた。73年処女作《フランス島紀行》の出版後，自然界のすばらしさによる神の証明を目的とした《自然の研究》の著述に没頭，84年に最初の3巻を発表，成功を収めた。

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