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Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
1790Sep, 2

Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim

Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (b. 1701)
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (January 27, 1701 – September 2, 1790) 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 and which gave rise to febronianism.

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