Huber, Marie (1695–1753)
Huber, Marie (1695–1753)
Swiss-born essayist. Born 1695 in Geneva, Switzerland; lived in France; died 1753; great aunt of François Huer, the naturalist.
Swiss deist who wrote on religious and theological subjects; her works, which reflect opposition to dogma and anticipate Jean-Jacques Rousseau's deist philosophy, include Le Monde fou préféré au monde sage (1731, trans. as The World Unmask'd; or, the Philosopher the greatest Cheat; in Twenty-Four Dialogues between Crito a Philosopher, Philo a Lawyer, and Erastus a Merchant, 1736), Le Systeème des anciens et des modernes concilié (1738, 1739), Lettres sur la religion essentielle (1738, 1754) and Réduction du 'Spectateur anglais' (1753); was also a translator and editor.
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