Article: Holbach, Paul Thiry, Baron D' (17231789)

HOLBACH, PAUL THIRY, BARON D' (1723 1789)

HOLBACH, PAUL THIRY, BARON D' (1723 1789), French philosopher, scientist, man of letters, founder of a salon, and critic of the ancien r é gime. Holbach's life and literary career are somewhat shadowy because he published his books clandestinely to avoid persecution and did not write a memoir, diary, or a great number of letters.

Holbach was born in the village of Edesheim in the Palatinate, a German-speaking area close to France and its culture. His parents, non-noble landowners, raised him as a Catholic. In childhood, he was influenced greatly by his uncle Fran ç ois-Adam d'Holbach, a rich financier ennobled in Vienna in ...

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