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August Adolph von Hennings

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August Adolph von Hennings; painting by Jens Juel , 1780.

August Adolph von Hennings (19 July 1746, Pinneberg ? 17 May 1826, Rantzau ) was a politician, publicist and writer of the Age of Enlightenment , born into a Schleswig-Holstein family of lawyers. Active in Denmark and the German states, he was known as the "true apostle of the Enlightenment to the dukedoms" [1] His elder sister Sophia (1742?1817) married the physician Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus .

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  1. ^ (in German) Christian Degn: Die Herzogtumer im Gesamtstaat 1773 - 1830 . In Olaf Klose , Christian Degn (ed.): Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins . Vol. 6 - 1721 - 1830. Wachholtz, Neumunster 1960, pp. 163–407; p. .273.