Abd al Hakk ibn Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Sabin. See [Sabin].
Abu Abd’allah Muhammad ibn Massara al Jabali. Arabian pantheist b. 881. He lived at Cordova in Spain and studied the works of Empedocles and other Greek philosophers. Accused of impiety, he left Spain and travelled through the East. Returned to Spain and collected disciples whom he led to scepticism. He was the most eminent predecessor of Ibn Rushd or Averroes. Died Oct. 931. His works were publicly burned at Seville.
* Acosta (Uriel), the name of his work was Examen Traditorum Philosophicarum ad legem Scriptam.
Acuna (Rosario de), Spanish writer and lecturess, b. Madrid about 1854. Contributes to Las Dominicales of Madrid. Has written The Doll’s House, and other educational works.
* Adams (Robert C.), American Freethought writer and lecturer, the son of the Rev. Needham Adams, b. Boston 1839. He became a sea-captain, and was afterwards shipper at Montreal. Has written in Secular Thought, the Truthseeker and the Freethinker’s Magazine, and published rational lectures under the title Pioneer Pith, ’89. In ’89 he was elected President of the Canadian Secular Union.
Admiraal (Aart), Dutch writer, b. Goedereede, 13 Oct. 1833. At first a schoolmaster, he became in ’60 director of the telegraph bureau at Schoonhoven. He wrote from ’56 for many years in De Dageraad over the anagram “Aramaldi.” In ’67 he published The Religion of the People under the pseudonym “Bato van der Maas,” a name he used in writing to many periodicals. A good mind and heart with but feeble constitution. He died 12 Nov. 1878.
Airoldi (J.) Italian lawyer, b. Lugano (Switzerland), 1829; a poet and writer of talent.
Albaida (Don Jose M. Orense), Spanish nobleman (marquis), one of the founders of the Republican party. Was expelled for his principles; returned to Spain, and was president of the Cortes in 1869.
* Alchindus. Died about 864.
* Aleardi had better be deleted. I am now told he was a Christian.