PHILOSOPHER

Baron d'Holbach

1723 - 1789

Photo of Baron d'Holbach

Icon of person Baron d'Holbach

Paul 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 in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris, where he kept a salon. He helped in the dissemination of "Protestant and especially German thought", particularly in the field of the sciences, but was best known for his atheism, and for his voluminous writings against religion, the most famous of them being The System of Nature (1770) and The Universal Morality (1776). Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Baron d'Holbach is the 141st most popular philosopher (down from 135th in 2019), the 219th most popular biography from Germany (down from 186th 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.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Baron d'Holbach by language

Loading...

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Baron d'Holbach ranks 141 out of 1,267. Before her are Zygmunt Bauman, Giambattista Vico, Tommaso Campanella, Philo, Charles Fourier, and Duns Scotus. After her are Mozi, Kanada, Wilhelm Dilthey, Edith Stein, Chrysippus, and Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten.

Most Popular Philosophers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Baron d'Holbach ranks 2. Before her is Adam Smith. After her are Frederick V of Denmark, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Joshua Reynolds, Carl Friedrich Abel, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Jean-François Marmontel, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Adam Ferguson, Prithvi Narayan Shah, 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, Jean-Étienne Liotard, Ethan Allen, Charles-Michel de l'Épée, Bernard-René Jourdan de Launay, Franz Xaver Richter, Petrus Camper, and Thomas Nelson Jr..

Others Born in 1723

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1789

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Baron d'Holbach ranks 219 out of 7,253. Before her are Frank-Walter Steinmeier (1956), Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596), Ferdinand I of Romania (1865), Hans Frank (1900), Augustus III of Poland (1696), and Wim Wenders (1945). After her are Georg Bednorz (1950), Michel Ney (1769), Walter Ulbricht (1893), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (1887), and Georg Simmel (1858).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Baron d'Holbach ranks 20. Before her are Walter Benjamin (1892), Friedrich Fröbel (1782), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), Meister Eckhart (1260), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), and Johann Friedrich Herbart (1776). After her are Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), Edith Stein (1891), Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714), Max Stirner (1806), Max Scheler (1874), and Oswald Spengler (1880).

German born Philosophers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous