Denis Diderot

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Enlightenment thinker human philosopher writer

Denis Diderot was an 18th-century French philosopher, writer, and co-founder of the Encyclopédie, renowned as a central intellectual of the Enlightenment.

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instanceOf	Enlightenment thinker ⓘ human ⓘ philosopher ⓘ writer ⓘ
burialPlace	Église Saint-Roch de Paris (original burial, later lost) ⓘ
causeOfDeath	pulmonary thrombosis ⓘ
child	Angélique Diderot ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of France ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1713-10-05 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1784-07-31 ⓘ
educatedAt	Collège des Jésuites de Langres ⓘ Collège d’Harcourt ⓘ
ethnicGroup	French ⓘ
familyName	Denis Diderot self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Diderot
fieldOfWork	aesthetics ⓘ art criticism ⓘ encyclopedism ⓘ literature ⓘ philosophy ⓘ
genre	drama ⓘ essay ⓘ novel ⓘ philosophical fiction ⓘ
givenName	Denis ⓘ
influenced	Friedrich Schiller ⓘ G. W. F. Hegel ⓘ Honoré de Balzac ⓘ Immanuel Kant ⓘ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ⓘ Russian Enlightenment ⓘ
influencedBy	Isaac Newton ⓘ John Locke ⓘ Pierre Bayle ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	French ⓘ
movement	Age of Enlightenment ⓘ surface form: Enlightenment French Enlightenment ⓘ
name	Denis Diderot self-link ⓘ
nativeLanguage	French ⓘ
notableIdea	atheism ⓘ critique of revealed religion ⓘ early evolutionary ideas ⓘ materialism ⓘ
notableWork	Encyclopédie ⓘ Jacques le fataliste et son maître ⓘ La Religieuse ⓘ Le Neveu de Rameau ⓘ Le Rêve de d’Alembert ⓘ Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient ⓘ Pensées philosophiques ⓘ Supplément au voyage de Bougainville ⓘ
occupation	art critic ⓘ encyclopedist ⓘ philosopher ⓘ playwright ⓘ writer ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Champagne ⓘ Kingdom of France ⓘ Langres ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Kingdom of France ⓘ Paris ⓘ
positionHeld	co-editor of the Encyclopédie ⓘ co-founder of the Encyclopédie ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ
residence	Paris ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Anne-Toinette Champion ⓘ
workLocation	Paris ⓘ

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