Henry Home Kames (1696-1782)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/38665
- Name (English)
- Henry Home Kames
- Short name
- Henry Home, Lord Kames
- Year of birth
- 1696
- Year of death
- 1782
- Short Description
- "Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696 – 27 December 1782) was a Scottish advocate, judge, philosopher, writer and agricultural improver. A central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, a founding member of the Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, and active in the Select Society, he acted as patron to some of the most influential thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, including the philosopher David Hume, the economist Adam Smith, the writer James Boswell, the chemical philosopher William Cullen, and the naturalist John Walker." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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