BARON VON PAUL HEINRICH DIETRICH HOLBACH
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A French philosopher and writer; born at Heidelsheim, in the Palatinate, in 1723; died June 21, 1789. He inherited great wealth from his father, and entertained in his elegant house a number of eminent writers and thinkers of the day, among them Rousseau, Diderot, and Buffon. He was himself a man of no ordinary talent, and held materialistic and atheistic views characteristic of the period preceding the French Revolution, which are expounded in "Christianity Unveiled" (1767); "Spirit of the Clergy" (1767); "Sacerdotal Imposture" (1767); "The System of Nature" (1770); "The Social System" (1773).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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