Matthias Knutzen was a German critic of religion and the author of three atheistic pamphlets. In modern Western history, he is the first self-professed atheist known by name.
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Matthias Knutzen was a German critic of religion and the author of three atheistic pamphlets. In modern Western history, he is the first self-professed atheist known by name. Knutzen was called "The only person on record who openly professed and taught atheism" in the 1789 Student's Pocket Dictionary by Thomas Mortimer.
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Academic
Status
deceased
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Lived 1646 to 1674 · aged 28
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