Jacques Georges Deyverdun

Jacques Georges Deyverdun (8 May 1734, in Lausanne – 4 July 1789, in Aix-les-Bains) was a Swiss classical scholar and translator. He translated Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther into French.

Deyverdun met Edward Gibbon in Lausanne and the two became friends.[1] He also acted as tutor to several English noblemen on the Grand Tour such as Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield and Sir Richard Worsley, 7th Baronet.

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  1. ^ McKitterick, Rosamond; Quinault, Roland (2002). Edward Gibbon and Empire. Cambridge University Press. p. 135. ISBN 9780521525053.