Clerk of bookstore, then studies with the academy of Geneva and the royal school of pharmacy in Paris (1779-1781). Of return to Geneva, Gosse plunges itself in various work on the gastric juice and digestion. Two of its memories, on the diseases of the gilders and the hatters, are crowned by the Academy of Science of Paris (1783 and 1785).

Manufacture of mineral water with Schweppe

After having opened a pharmacy, it tries to assemble a fine earthenware factory and launches out, with Johann Jacob Schweppe, in the manufacture of artificial mineral water (1790). Promoter of the Company of physics and natural history (1791), it endeavors to play a part of regulator under the Revolution, where it revêt various administrative offices and political.

Founder of the Swiss Company of biology

Deputy mayor of Geneva in 1800-1801, Gosse continues his scientific work, in particular his herborizings, and collects the monstrosities. Founder of the Company of the naturalists (1803), it gives courses of botany and it is in its property of the castle of Mornex (Haute-Savoie) that the Swiss Company of biology is founded in 1815. Correspondent of the royal Academy of sciences (1789), then of the Institute of France (1804).