Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
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1701 – 1790
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Who was Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim?
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim was a German historian and theologian. He is remembered as Febronius, the pseudonym under which he wrote his 1763 treatise On the State of the Church and the Legitimate Power of the Roman Pontiff which offered Europe the "foremost formulation of the arguments against papal absolutism in Germany".
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- Born
- Jan 27, 1701
Trier - Nationality
- Germany
- Lived in
- Trier
- Died
- Sep 2, 1790
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on July 23, 2013
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