Helvetius
Helvetius, a Roman adjective meaning from Helvētiī (“the people in the Swiss region”), may refer to:
- Helvidius, sometimes written Helvetius, the author of a work written prior to 383 against the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary
- 6972 Helvetius, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1992
- Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715–1771), a French philosopher and littérateur
- Anne-Catherine de Ligniville, Madame Helvétius (1722–1800), his wife who maintained a renowned salon in France in the eighteenth century
- James Francis Helvetius Hobler (1764-1844)
- Johann Friedrich Schweitzer, also known as John Frederick Helvetius (1625–1709), a Dutch physician and alchemical writer of German extraction
- a Roman nomen
- a character in The Second Maiden's Tragedy
See also
- Helvetia, the female national personification of Switzerland
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