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Feuerbach

American  
[foi-er-bahkh, -bahk, foi-uhr-bahkh] / ˈfɔɪ ərˌbɑx, -ˌbɑk, ˈfɔɪ ərˌbɑx /

noun

  1. Ludwig Andreas 1804–72, German philosopher.


Feuerbach British  
/ ˈfɔɪərbax /

noun

  1. Ludwig Andreas (ˈluːtvɪç anˈdreːas). 1804–72, German materialist philosopher: in The Essence of Christianity (1841), translated into English by George Eliot (1853), he maintained that God is merely an outward projection of man's inner self

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Roles in administration, sales, development and production are likely to be affected in Feuerbach, Schwieberdingen, Waiblingen, Bühl and Homburg locations.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025

Iowa opened a 13-point lead on a Kylie Feuerbach 3-pointer in the middle of the second quarter but Scalia scored eight straight, including consecutive 3-pointers, to help Minnesota get within 42-37 at the half.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2022

Snow, London taxi drivers, a late Arthur Miller play whose title he couldn’t remember and the 19th-century German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2019

But the Party functions in the way that Feuerbach said God functions in Christianity, as a mysterious and implacable external power.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016

Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, and John Stuart Mill have recorded such irrefutable criticisms of the Kantian doctrine of the absolute disinterestedness of moral action, that it is unnecessary to add to their arguments.

From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Nordau, Max Simon