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.
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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.
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deceased
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Lived 1746 to 1826 · aged 79
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