August Adolph von Hennings
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August Adolph von Hennings (19 July 1746, Pinneberg – 17 May 1826, Rantzau) 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"[1] His elder sister Sophia (1742–1817) married the physician Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus.
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- ^ (in German) Christian Degn: Die Herzogtümer im Gesamtstaat 1773 - 1830. In Olaf Klose, Christian Degn (ed.): Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins. Vol. 6 - 1721 - 1830. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1960, pp. 163–407; p. .273.
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