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Helvetius in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Helvetius is the
Roman name for a
member of the
Gallic tribe known as the Helvetii, or an inhabitant...
- (meaning "Swiss" in German;
Latinized as
Helvétius). His great-grandfather
Johann Friedrich Schweitzer known as "
Helvetius", was a
Dutch physician and alchemist...
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Publius Helvius Pertinax (/ˈpɜːrtɪnæks/ PER-tin-ax; 1
August 126 – 28
March 193) was
Roman emperor for the
first three months of 193. He
succeeded Commodus...
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philosopher Helvétius in 1751. By the time he died
twenty years later, the
couple had am****ed a vast fortune, and with it
Madame Helvétius maintained her...
- 1667.
Helvetius was born or
baptized 17
January 1630 in Köthen (Anhalt) as the son of the
jurist Balthazar Sweitzer (Schweitzer,
Helvety of
Helvetius) and...
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Julien Offray de La
Mettrie Denis Diderot Baron d'Holbach
Claude Adrien Helvétius Pierre Jean
Georges Cabanis Jacques-André
Naigeon Atheism during the Age...
- of the Académie des
Inscriptions and of the
group around Claude Adrien Helvétius. Soon after, he
befriended Pierre Jean
George Cabanis, the
Marquis de...
- some of the
arguments made by
Helvétius in his
posthumously published work, De l'Homme (On Man). Jean
Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1715-1771, was a philosopher...
- twenty-two. When, in his late nineties, he met the then-beautiful
Madame Helvétius, he
reportedly told her, "Ah Madame, if only I were
eighty again!" In...
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Everett C. Ladd Jr., "
Helvétius and d'Holbach",
Journal of the
History of
Ideas (1962) 23(2): 221–238. John Lough, "
Helvétius and d'Holbach", Modern...
