biography
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Brownson, Orestes (Augustus)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1803–76)
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| biography:
| Writer and religious thinker, born in Stockbridge, Vermont, USA. Largely self-educated and zealously devoted to social and religious reform, he was successively a Presbyterian, a Universalist minister, and a Unitarian pastor, before founding his own sect (1836), and was also associated with the transcendentalist movement. In 1838 he founded and became editor of the Boston (later Brownson's ) Quarterly Review. In 1844, with his wife and seven children, he became a Catholic. As an apologist for Catholicism (and for American democracy) thereafter, he remained militant and uncompromising. His works, which attracted controversy from both inside and outside Catholicism, were widely read in his day. |
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