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Baron d'Holbach
Paul Thiry, Baron d'Holbach, known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He was born in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris, where he kept a salon. He helped in the dissemination of "Protestant and especially German thought", particularly in the field of the…
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culture · German-born French philosopher (1723–1789) · philosopher · writer · salonnière · chemist · encyclopédistes · lawyer · translator · also Baron d'Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry d’Holbach, baron d’Holbach, Baron von Holbach, Baron Paul Henri Thiry d’Holbach
Born 8 December 1723 · Died 21 January 1789 · Q7104
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Died 1789-01-21.
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Born 1723-12-08.
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