Joseph Lonchampt

Joseph Lonchampt (1825–1890) was a French stockbroker and positivist writer.

Lonchampt had a religious view of positivism, composing a series of prayers dedicated to the "New great Being" i.e. "Humanity". He claimed that prayer or meditation as a mental exercise would ensure success and constituted a useful instrument to realise both personal and social improvement.^[1]

In 1859 he was appointed professor of Popular Astronomy at the Association Polytechnique pour le développement de l'instruction publique.^[2]

Works

Essai sur la prière (1852) Lyon: C. Savy (English translation Positivist Prayer (1877) trans John G. Mills)

References

^ Harp, Gillis J. (2010). Positivist Republic: Auguste Comte and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1920. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State Press. p. 41.
^ "Association Polytechnique pour le développement de l'instruction publique". cths.fr. Le comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 10 March 2017.

[Harp-1] Harp, Gillis J. (2010). Positivist Republic: Auguste Comte and the Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1920. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State Press. p. 41.

[CTHS-2] "Association Polytechnique pour le développement de l'instruction publique". cths.fr. Le comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. Retrieved 10 March 2017.

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