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Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim

1701 - 1790

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Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (January 27, 1701 – September 2, 1790) was a German priest and coadjutor bishop of Trier, and a historian/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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim is the 244th most popular historian (down from 172nd in 2019), the 3,129th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,410th in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim ranks 244 out of 561. Before him are Edward Luttwak, Francisco López de Gómara, Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi, Ibn Hayyan, Alexander Vasiliev, and Bernard Desclot. After him are Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Muhammad Aufi, Rudolph Rummel, Natalie Zemon Davis, Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, and Sigfried Giedion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1701, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim ranks 13. Before him are Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas, Sharaku, Alvise Giovanni Mocenigo, Dmitry Laptev, Johan Agrell, and Nicolai Eigtved. After him are Wu Jingzi, Johann Jakob Breitinger, and Thomas Hudson. Among people deceased in 1790, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim ranks 16. Before him are Jacob Christian Schäffer, Johann Bernhard Basedow, William Cullen, Johann II Bernoulli, Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, and Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa. After him are Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn, Marmaduke Tunstall, Israel Putnam, William Livingston, Thomas Warton, and William Hooper.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim ranks 3,131 out of 7,253. Before him are Willi Schulz (1938), Johann Baptist Cramer (1771), Eric II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528), Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1582), Albrecht Adam (1786), and Heinrich von Bellegarde (1756). After him are Hermann Esser (1900), Agnes Bernauer (1410), Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805), Harold Faltermeyer (1952), Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg (1714), and Josef Fischer (1865).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim ranks 30. Before him are Philipp Spitta (1841), Karl Krumbacher (1856), Moritz Cantor (1829), Johannes Aventinus (1477), Gerardus Vossius (1577), and Fritz Fischer (1908). After him are Hermann Conring (1606), Gustav Hugo (1764), Gerhard Friedrich Müller (1705), Abraham Geiger (1810), Wilhelm von Bode (1845), and Ubbo Emmius (1547).

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