Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim was born on January 27, 1701. See ranking, bio blurb, and everyone else born that day.
About Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim
Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (27 January 1701 – 2 September 1790) was a German Catholic 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 rise to Febronianism.