Baron d'Holbach Philosopher

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (French: [dɔlbak]; 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).

Personal facts

Baron d'Holbach
Birth dateDecember 08, 1723
Birth place
Palatinate (region) , Edesheim
Date of deathJanuary 21, 1789
Era
Age of Enlightenment
Main interest
Materialism
Atheism
Determinism

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influenced
influenced by
Henry St John 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
philosophical school
French materialism

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