Holbach, Baron von, a French philosophe born in Heidelsheim, in the Palatinate, of wealthy parents; lived from youth all his days in Paris, kept a good table, and entertained all the “Encyclopédie” notabilities at his board; wrote “Système de la Nature,” and was a materialist in philosophy and an atheist in religion, but a kind-hearted man (1723‒1789).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hohenzollerns, The * Holbein, Hans