biography
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Hontheim, Johann Nikolaus von
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pseudonym Justinus Febronius
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pronunciation:
[honthiym]
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| lived:
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| biography:
| Clergyman, theologian, and historian, born in Trier, W Germany. He was ordained in Rome (1728), and became professor of law at the University of Trier (1734) and Bishop of Trier (1748). He wrote two works on the history of Trier (1750–7), but is remembered chiefly for a theological essay (1763) in which he propounded a system of Church government combining an exaggerated Gallicanism with the democratic element of Congregationalism (Febronianism). |
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