Family Name: Jefferson
First Name: Thomas
Birth Date: Wed, Apr 10, 1743
Birth Place: Shadwell, Virginia
Death Date: Sat, Jul 01, 1826
Death Place: Monticello, Virginia
Main places of activity:
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Paris 1781 1787
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Philadelphia 1788 1797
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Washington 1798 1806
Personal info:
Education

College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 
Career

First US Secretary of State, Third President and principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
Financial Situation

He owned several plantations and owned the slaves who worked in them, yet died highly indebted.
Translations Other Works

translations activities

In his retirement, Jefferson corresponded with the French writer Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy, edited his Treatise on Political Economy, and translated his Commentary and Review of Montesquieu’s Spirit of Laws into English. The latter work was published in the US before it was published in France in its original language.

secondary bibliography references

Annette Gordon Reed, Peter S. Onuf, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination, New York, 2016.

Armin Mattes, Citizens of a Common Intellectual Homeland. The Transatlantic Origins of American Democracy and Nationhood, Charlottesville, 2015.

https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/brief-biography-of-jefferson/


Translations

  • Commentaire sur l’Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu

  • Translation Title: A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu’s Spirit of Laws
  • Original Author: Antoine Louis Claude, Comte Destutt de Tracy
  • Original title: Commentaire sur l’Esprit des Lois de Montesquieu
  • Publ. Year From: 1815 to: 1817
  • lang: French
  • Translation: A Commentary and Review of Montesquieu’s Spirit of Laws
  • Publisher: William Duane
  • Pub. Place: Philadelphia
  • Pub. Date: 1804
  • Lang: English
  • Note:

    The translation was published before the French edition.

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