The people on the Bernoulli family tree
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| Portrait | Person | Years | Life | On the chart |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NB | Nicolaus BernoulliSpice merchant and councillor of Basel | 1623?–1708? | The father of Jacob and Johann, a member of the town council and a magistrate. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
 | Jacob BernoulliProfessor of mathematics at Basel | 1655–1705 | The elder brother, who taught Johann and wrote Ars Conjectandi. Sources1 | Find on the chart |
| NB | Nicolaus BernoulliBrother of Jacob and Johann | 1662–1716 | The father of Nicolaus I, who was a nephew of Jacob and Johann. Sources3 | Find on the chart |
 | Johann BernoulliProfessor at Groningen, then Basel | 1667–1748 | He followed Jacob in the Basel chair and taught his sons and Euler. | Find on the chart |
| NI | Nicolaus I BernoulliProfessor at Padua, then Basel | 1687?–1759 | A nephew of Jacob and Johann, who studied with both. Sources3 | Find on the chart |
 | Nicolaus II BernoulliMathematician at St Petersburg | 1695–1726? | The eldest son of Johann, who died at St Petersburg. Sources4 | Find on the chart |
 | Daniel BernoulliMathematician and physicist | 1700–1782 | Born at Groningen, he published Hydrodynamica in 1738. Sources5 | Find on the chart |
 | Johann II BernoulliProfessor of mathematics at Basel | 1710?–1790? | He won the prize of the Paris Academy four times. Sources6 | Find on the chart |
 | Johann III BernoulliAstronomer in Berlin | 1744–1807 | Appointed to the Berlin Academy at nineteen. Sources7 | Find on the chart |
 | Jacob II BernoulliMathematician at St Petersburg | 1759?–1789? | He married a granddaughter of Euler and drowned in the Neva. Sources8 | Find on the chart |
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- MLA“The Bernoulli Family Tree, Eight Mathematicians of Basel.” Genogram Builder, 10 Nov. 2026, https://genogrambuilder.org/history/bernoulli-family-tree.
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Sources
Every source was opened on 10 November 2026. Each is a biography in MacTutor, the history of mathematics archive of the University of St Andrews.
Portrait credits
Each name leads to the file on Wikimedia Commons. The portraits in the article are in the public domain or under CC0.
- Jacob Bernoulli, Niklaus Bernoulli (1662-1716), 1687.
- Johann Bernoulli, Johann Rudolf Huber, about 1740.
- Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Johann Rudolf Huber, 1723.
- Daniel Bernoulli, Attributed to Johann Rudolf Huber, about 1720 to 1725.
- Johann II Bernoulli, Heinrich Pfenninger, 1784.
- Johann III Bernoulli, Unknown engraver.
- Jacob II Bernoulli, Unknown painter, Basel University Library, between 1765 and 1780.
- The title page of Hydrodynamica by Daniel Bernoulli, 1738, Unknown author, 1738.
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