Baron d'Holbach
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Baron d'Holbach was an 18th-century German-born French philosopher who became a leading figure of the Enlightenment and is remembered as one of the most influential atheists of his time. He matters because his radical writings on materialism, determinism, and the critique of religion helped shape modern secular philosophy and intellectual thought.
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- 1723-12-00
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- 1789-01-01
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Paul Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (/ˈdoʊlbɑːk/; French: [dɔlbak]; 8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), 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 sciences, but was known more for his atheism and voluminous writings against religion, famously including The System of Nature (1770) and The Universal Morality (1776).
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