Baron d'Holbach
Philosopher, Author
1723 – 1789
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Who was Baron d'Holbach?
Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach French; was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris, where he kept a salon. He was well known for his atheism and for his voluminous writings against religion, the most famous of them being The System of Nature (1770).
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- Born
- Dec 8, 1723
Edesheim - Also known as
- Paul D'Holbach
- Religion
- Atheism
- Nationality
- France
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- Leiden University
- Lived in
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- Died
- Jun 21, 1789
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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