PHILOSOPHER

Baron d'Holbach

1723 - 1789

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Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (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 Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris, where he kept a salon. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Baron d'Holbach has received more than 484,816 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. Baron d'Holbach is the 135th most popular philosopher (down from 134th in 2019), the 186th most popular biography from Germany (down from 178th in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Philosopher.

Baron d'Holbach was an 18th-century French philosopher and writer who is famous for his contributions to the fields of philosophy and atheism. He was a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment movement and is best known for his book "System of Nature," which presented a materialistic and atheist worldview and criticized organized religion.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Baron d'Holbach ranks 135 out of 1,267. Before her are Ernst Cassirer, Marsilio Ficino, Friedrich Fröbel, Swami Vivekananda, Isocrates, and Zygmunt Bauman. After her are Oswald Spengler, Duns Scotus, Martin Buber, Wilhelm Dilthey, Giambattista Vico, and Hans Kelsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Baron d'Holbach ranks 2. Before her is Adam Smith. After her are Frederick V of Denmark, Joshua Reynolds, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Carl Friedrich Abel, Adam Ferguson, Prithvi Narayan Shah, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, and Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg. Among people deceased in 1789, Baron d'Holbach ranks 2. Before her is Abdul Hamid I. After her are Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Claude Joseph Vernet, Ethan Allen, Jean-Étienne Liotard, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Franz Xaver Richter, Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, and Paolo Renier.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Baron d'Holbach ranks 186 out of 7,253. Before her are Rudolf Höss (1901), Erich Raeder (1876), Frederick William II of Prussia (1744), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Christian I of Denmark (1426), and Hans Frank (1900). After her are Emmy Noether (1882), Augustus III of Poland (1696), Anne of Cleves (1515), Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (955), Emil Fischer (1852), and Oswald Spengler (1880).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Baron d'Holbach ranks 20. Before her are Meister Eckhart (1260), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), and Friedrich Fröbel (1782). After her are Oswald Spengler (1880), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), Edith Stein (1891), Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), Max Stirner (1806), and Max Scheler (1874).

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