Baron d'Holbach, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist
Date of Birth: 08-Dec-1723
Place of Birth: Edesheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Date of Death: 21-Jan-1789
Profession: writer, lawyer, chemist, Encyclopédistes, salonnière, philosopher
Nationality: France, Germany
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Baron d'Holbach
- Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (French: [d?lbak]) (8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), was a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist 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).
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Source: Hartmut Harthausen, Hans Mercker, Hans Schröter: Paul Thiry von Holbach: Philosoph der Aufklärung, 1723–1789. Pfälzische Landesbibliothek, Speyer 1989
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| Date of birth/death | 15 July 1718 | 5 July 1793 | |
| Location of birth/death | Malmö Sankt Petri församling | Paris | |
| Work period | from 1740s until 1791 | ||
| Work location | Bayreuth, Paris, Saint Petersburg | ||
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Source: Hartmut Harthausen, Hans Mercker, Hans Schröter: Paul Thiry von Holbach: Philosoph der Aufklärung, 1723–1789. Pfälzische Landesbibliothek, Speyer 1989
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