Louis de l'Isle de la Croyère

Louis de l'Isle de la Croyere
Portrait of Louis de l'Isle
Bornc. 1685
Paris, Kingdom of France
DiedOctober 21, 1741(1741-10-21) (aged 55–56)
Avacha Bay, Petropavlovsk, Russian Empire
Academic work
DisciplineAstronomy

Louis de l'Isle de la Croyère (c. 1685 – 10 October 1741) was a French astronomer, who served the Russian Empire and became an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg.

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