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See also: born at Brussels on the 18th of See also: August 1735
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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 science
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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
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On the expiry of his novitiate he became professor at Luxembourg, and afterwards at Liege
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In 1764 he was appointed to the professorship of See also: theology at Tyrnau in Hungary, but in 1771 he returned to Belgium and continued to discharge his professorial duties at Liege till the suppression of the Jesuits in 1773
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The See also: remainder of his See also: life he devoted to study, travel and literature
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On the invasion of Belgium by the French in 1794 he went to Paderborn, and remained there two years, after which he took up his residence at Ratisbon, where he died on the 23rd of May 1802
.
Feller's See also: works exceed 120 volumes
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In 1773 he published, under the assumed name Flexier de Reval (an 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 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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