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
Lindh (Theodor Anders), b. Borgo (Finland), 13 Jan. 1833. Studied
at Helsingfors University, '51-57; became lawyer in '71, and is
now a member of the Municipal Council of Borgo. He has written many
poems in Swedish, and also translated from the English poets, and has
published Freethought essays, which have brought him into controversy
with the clergy.
Lindkvist (Alfred), Swedish writer, b. Gefle, 21 Oct. 1860, of
pious parents. At the University of Upsala he studied European
literature, and became acquainted with the works of Mill, Darwin,
and Spencer. He has published two volumes of poems, Snow Drops and
April Days, and lost a stipend at the University by translating
from the Danish a rationalistic life of Jesus entitled The Reformer
from Galilee. Mr. Lindkvist has visited Paris, and collaborated on
a Stockholm daily paper. In '88 he joined his friend Lennstrand in
propagating Freethought, and in Nov. received a month's imprisonment
for having translated one of J. Symes's anti-Christian pamphlets. He
now edits Fritankaren in conjunction with Mr. Lennstrand.
Lindner (Ernst Otto Timotheus), German physician, b. Breslau, 28
Nov. 1820. A friend of Schopenhauer, whose philosophy he maintained
in several works on music. He edited the Vossische Zeitung from
'63. Died at Berlin, 7 Aug. 1867.
Liniere (François Payot de), French satiric poet, b. Paris, 1628;
known as the Atheist of Senlis. Boileau says the only act of piety
he ever did was drinking holy water because his mistress dipped her
finger in it. Wrote many songs and smart epigrams, and is said to have
undertaken a criticism of the New Testament. Died at Paris in 1704.
Linton (Eliza, née Lynn) novelist and journalist, daughter of vicar
of Crosthwaite, Cumberland, b. Keswick, 1822. Has contributed largely
to the leading Radical journals, and has written numerous works of
fiction, of which we must mention Under which Lord? and The Rebel of
the Family. In '72 she published The True History of Joshua Davidson,
Christian and Communist, and in '85 the Autobiography of Christopher
Kirkland. She has also written on the woman question, and contributed
largely to periodical literature.
Linton (William James), poet, engraver, and author, b. at London,
1812. A Chartist in early life, he was intimately associated with
the chief political refugees. He contributed to the democratic press,
and also, we believe, to the Oracle of Reason. He wrote the Reasoner
tract on "The Worth of Christianity." He was one of the founders of
the Leader, has edited the Truthseeker, the National and the English
Republic, and has published Famine a Masque, a Life of Paine, and a
memoir of James Watson and some volumes of poems. In '67 he went to
America, but has recently returned.
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