# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/august-adolph-von-hennings
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:02:22.455Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/august-adolph-von-hennings"
name: "August Adolph von Hennings"
slug: "august-adolph-von-hennings"
description: "August Adolph von Hennings was a politician, publicist and writer of the Age of Enlightenment, born in the Duchy of Holstein to a family of lawyers. Active in Denmark and the German states, he was known as the \"true apostle of the Enlightenment to the dukedoms\" His elder sister Sophia (1742–1817) married the physician Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus."
tagline: "Danish politician (1746-1826)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/August_Hennings_1746-1826.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1746-07-19"
deathDate: "1826-05-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.65
  momentum:             5.614035087719298
  historical:           4.603204
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81_%DA%A4%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%B3"
    title: "اوجوسانت ادولف ڤون هينينجس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Hennings"
    title: "August Hennings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Hennings"
    title: "August Hennings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Adolph_von_Hennings"
    title: "August Adolph von Hennings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_von_Hennings"
    title: "August von Hennings"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q382213"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump