Baron d'Holbach

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (8 December 1723 to 21 January 1789) is described by Open Library as a French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist and a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. The catalogue lists 255 works under his name, led by System of Nature, and files them under subjects such as Materialism, Atheism, Philosophy and religion, Psychology, Ethics, Political science, Christianity and Controversial literature, with the note Early works to 1800. That spread shows the range of his writing, from arguments about matter and religion to ethics and politics. His name appears in many catalogue forms, including Baron D'Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry Holbach and Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry baron d'.