Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian and theologian (died 1790)

Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim

German historian and theologian (1701–1790)

Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim was a German priest and coadjutor bishop of Trier, and a historian/theologian. He is remembered as Febronius, the pseudonym under which he wrote his 1763 treatise On the State of the Church and the Legitimate Power of the Roman Pontiff and which gave…