A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and NationsWheeler, J. M. (Joseph Mazzini)
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A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations
Wheeler, J. M. (Joseph Mazzini)
Free thought -- Biography
Furnemont (Léon), Belgian advocate, b. Charleroi, 17 April,
1861. Entered the school of Mines Liége in '76, and founded the Circle
of Progressive Students. Became president of International Congress
of Students, '84, and represented Young Belgium at the funeral of
Victor Hugo. Radical candidate at the Brussels municipal elections,
he obtained 3,500 votes, but was not elected. He is a Councillor
of the International Federation of Freethinkers and director of a
monthly journal, La Raison, 1889.
Gabarro (Bartolomé) Dr., Spanish writer, b. Ygualade, Barcelona,
27 Sept. 1846, was educated in a clerical college with a view to
taking the clerical habit, he refused and went to America. After
travelling much, he established a day school in Barcelona and founded
an Anti-clerical League of Freethinkers pledged to live without
priests. This induced much clerical wrath, especially when Dr. Gabarro
founded some 200 Anti-clerical groups and over 100 lay schools. For
denouncing the assassins of a Freethinker he was pursued for libel,
sentenced to four years' imprisonment, and forced to fly to Cerbere
on the frontier, where he continues his anti-clerical journal La
Tronada. He has written many anti-clerical brochures and an important
work on Pius IX. and History.
Gabelli (Aristide), Italian writer, b. Belluno, 22 March, 1830. Author
of The Religious Question in Italy, '64, Man and the Moral Sciences,
'69, in which he rejects all metaphysics and supernaturalism, and
Thoughts, 1886.
Gage (Matilda Joslyn), American reformer, b. Cicero, New
York, 24 March, 1826. Her father, Dr. H. Joslyn, was an active
abolitionist. Educated at De Peyster and Hamilton, N.Y., in '45 she
married Henry H. Gage. From '52 till '61 she wrote and spoke against
slavery. In '72 she was made President of the National Woman's
Suffrage Association. She is joint author of The History of Woman
Suffrage with Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, and with them considers
the Church the great obstacle to woman's progress.
Gagern (Carlos von), b. Rehdorf, Neumark, 12 Dec. 1826. Educated at
Berlin, travelled in '47 to Paris where he became acquainted with
Humboldt. He went to Spain and studied Basque life in the Pyrenees;
served in the Prussian army, became a friend of Wislicenus and the
free-religious movement. In '52 he went to Mexico; here he had an
appointment under General Miramon. In the French-Mexican expedition
he was taken prisoner in '63; released in '65 he went to New York. He
was afterwards military attaché for Mexico at Berlin. His freethought
appears in his memoirs entitled Dead and Living, 1884, and in his
volume Sword and Trowel, 1888. Died Madrid 19 Dec. 1885.
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