Benjamin Constant

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Benjamin Constant was a Swiss-French liberal philosopher, novelist, and politician best known for his influential writings on individual liberty and constitutional government in the early 19th century.

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instanceOf human
liberal thinker
novelist
philosopher
politician
birthDate 1767-10-25
birthPlace Canton of Vaud
Lausanne
Switzerland
citizenship France
Switzerland
countryOfActivity France
Switzerland
deathDate 1830-12-08
deathPlace France
Paris
familyName de Rebecque
fieldOfWork constitutional theory
literature
political philosophy
fullName Benjamin Constant self-linksurface differs
surface form: Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque
genre memoir
novel
political essay
givenName Henri
ideology constitutionalism
liberalism
influenced Alexis de Tocqueville
John Stuart Mill
modern liberal political theory
influencedBy Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Montesquieu
languageOfWorkOrName French
movement classical liberalism
liberalism
notableIdea defense of individual rights against state power
distinction between the liberty of the ancients and the liberty of the moderns
representative government as protection for individual liberty
notableWork Adolphe
De la liberté des Anciens comparée à celle des Modernes
De la liberté des Anciens comparée à celle des Modernes
surface form: De la liberté des Modernes

De l’esprit de conquête et de l’usurpation
Principes de politique applicables à tous les gouvernements représentatifs
occupation jurist
novelist
philosopher
politician
writer
positionHeld Conseiller d'État
surface form: Conseiller d’État in France

member of the Chamber of Deputies of France

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Juliette Récamier associatedWith Benjamin Constant
Philhellenes hasNotableMember Benjamin Constant
Madame de Staël influenced Benjamin Constant
Benjamin Constant fullName Benjamin Constant self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque
Cemetery of the Kings hasGraveOf Benjamin Constant
this entity surface form: Swiss philosopher Benjamin Constant