Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach (1723-1789)
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- Name (English)
- Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach
- Short name
- Baron d´Holbach
- Year of birth
- 1723
- Year of death
- 1789
- Short Description
- "Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (French: [dɔlbak]) (8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), was a French-German philosopher, encyclopedist, writer, and 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)." - (en.wikipedia.org 10.08.2021)
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Porträtgemälde: Baron Paul Thiry d’Holbach (auch: von Holbach)
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Baron Franz Adam von Holbach
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