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
Trezza (Gaetano), Italian writer, b. Verona, Dec. 1828. Was brought
up and ordained a priest, and was an eloquent preacher. Study led him
to resign the clerical profession. He has published Confessions of a
Sceptic, '78; Critical Studies, '78; New Critical Studies, '81. He is
Professor of Literature at the Institute of High Studies, Florence. To
the first number of the Revue Internationale '83, he contributed Les
Dieux s'en vont. He also wrote Religion and Religions, '84; and a work
on St. Paul. A study on Lucretius has reached its third edition, '87.
Tridon (Edme Marie, Gustave), French publicist, b. Chatillon sur
Seine, Burgundy, 5 June, 1841. Educated by his parents who were rich,
he became a doctor of law but never practised. In '64 he published in
Le Journal des Ecoles, his remarkable study of revolutionary history
Les Hébertistes. In May, '65 he founded with Blanqui, etc., Le Candide,
the precursor of La Libre Pensée, '66, in both of which the doctrines
of materialism were expounded. Delegated in '65 to the International
Students Congress at Liége his speech was furiously denounced by Bishop
Dupanloup; he got more than two years' imprisonment for articles in
Le Candide and La Libre Pensée, and in Ste Pelagie contracted the
malady which killed him. While in prison he wrote the greater part
of his work Du Molochisme Juif, critical and philosophical studies
of the Jewish religion, only published in '84. After 4 Sept. '70,
he founded La Patrie en Danger. In Feb. '71 he was elected deputy to
the Bordeaux Assembly, but resigned after voting against declaration
of peace. He then became a member of the Paris Commune, retiring after
the collapse to Brussels where he died 29 Aug. 1871. He received the
most splendid Freethinker's funeral witnessed in Belgium.
Truebner (Nicolas), publisher, b. Heidelberg, 17 June, 1817. After
serving with Longman and Co., he set up in business, and distinguished
himself by publishing works on Freethought, religions, philosophy
and Oriental literature. Died London, 30 March, 1884.
Truelove (Edward), English publisher, b. 29 Oct. 1809. Early in
life he embraced the views of Robert Owen, and for nine years was
secretary of the John Street Institution. In '44 and '45 he threw
in his lot with the New Harmony Community, Hampshire. In '52 he
took a shop in the Strand, where he sold advanced literature. He
published Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary and Romances, Paine's
complete works, D'Holbach's System of Nature, and Taylor's Syntagma
and Diegesis. In '58 he was prosecuted for publishing a pamphlet on
Tyrannicide, by W. E. Adams, but the prosecution was abandoned. In
'78 he was, after two trials, sentenced to four months' imprisonment
for publishing R. D. Owen's Moral Physiology. Upon his release he
was presented with a testimonial and purse of 200 sovereigns.
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