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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
.
References
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- ^
(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.
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