Funck-Brentano
THEOPHILE (fönk-bren-tä nö), a French philosophical and critical writer; born in Luxemburg, Aug. 20, 1830. His thorough studies in law and medicine imparted to his philosophical writings an exactitude of thought and inspired a special stress on method, as in "New Thoughts and Maxims" (1858); "Exact Thought in Philosophy" (1869); "Greek Sophists and Contemporary English Sophists" (1879); "The French Sophists" (1905).