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See also:FRANCOIS See also:XAVIER DE See also:FELLER (1735-1802) , Belgian author, was See also:born at See also:Brussels on the 18th of See also:August 1735 . In 1752 he entered a school of the See also:Jesuits at See also:Reims, where he manifested a See also:great aptitude for See also:mathematics and See also:physical See also:science . He commenced his novitiate two years afterwards, and in testimony of his admiration for the apostle of See also:India added See also:Xavier to his surname . On the expiry of his novitiate he became See also:professor at Luxembourg, and afterwards at See also:Liege . In 1764 he was appointed to the professorship of See also:theology at Tyrnau in See also:Hungary, but in 1771 he returned to See also:Belgium and continued to See also:discharge his professorial duties at Liege till the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773 . The See also:remainder of his See also:life he devoted to study, travel and literature . On the invasion of Belgium by the See also:French in 1794 he went to See also:Paderborn, and remained there two years, after which he took up his See also:residence at Ratisbon, where he died on the 23rd of May 1802 . See also:Feller's See also:works exceed 120 volumes . In 1773 he published, under the assumed name Flexier de See also:Reval (an See also:anagram of Xavier d Feller), his Catechisme philosophique; and his See also:principal wort Dictionnaire historique et litteraire (published in 1781 at Liege in See also:Volume's, and afterwards several times reprinted and continue, down to 1848), appeared under the same name . Among his other works the most important are Cours de morale chretienne et de litterature religieuse and his Coup d'cxil sur congres d'See also:Ems . The See also:Journal historique et litteraire, published at Luxembourg and Liege from 1774 to 1794 in 70 volumes, was edited and in great See also:part written by him . |
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