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BARBEYRAC, JEAN (16741744)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 387 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BARBEYRAC, JEAN (16741744) , French jurist, the nephew of Charles Barbeyrac, a distinguished physician of Montpellier, was born at Beziers in Lower
Languedoc
  on the 15th of March 1674. He removed with his family into Switzerland after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and there studied jurisprudence. After spending some tithe at Geneva and Frankfort-on-Main, he became professor of belles-lettres in the French school of Berlin. Thence, in 1711, he was called to the professorship of history and civil law at Lausanne, and finally settled as professor of public law at
Groningen
 . He died on the 3rd of March 1744. His fame rests chiefly on the
preface
  and notes to his
translation
  of Pufendorf's treatise De Jure Naturae et Gentium. In fundamental principles he follows almost entirely_Locke and Pufendorf; but he works out with
great
  skill the theory of moral
obligation
 , referring it to the command or will of God. He indicates the distinction, developed more fully by
Thomasius
  and Kant, between the legal and the moral qualities of action. The principles of international law he reduces to those of the law of nature, and combats, in so doing, many of the positions taken up by Grotius. He rejects the notion that sovereignty in any way resembles property, and makes even
marriage
  a matter of civil
contract
 . Barbeyrac also translated Grotius's De Jure Belli et Pacis, Cumberland's De Legibus Naturae, and Pufendorf's smaller treatise De Officio Hominis et Civis. Among his own productions are a treatise, De la morale des peres, a history of ancient treaties contained in the Supplement au grand corps diplomatique, and the curious Traite du jeu (1709), in which he defends the morality of games of chance.


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