September 2, 1790) was a German historian and theologian. He is remembered as Febronius, the pseudonym under which he wrote his 1763 treatise On the State of...

of the "Febronius"; and after submitting them to Joseph II, had forwarded them to the new pope, Clement XIV. These articles, though Febronius was prohibited...

vicar-general to the archbishop-elector of Mainz, wrote under the pseudonym of "Febronius", expounding Gallican ideas of national Catholic Churches. Although Hontheim...

Scaramelli (1687–1752) Peter Dens (1690–1775) Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787) Febronius (Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim) (1701–1790) Francesco Antonio Zaccaria...

(1710–1729) Lothar Friedrich von Nalbach (1730–1748) Johann Nikolaus (Febronius) von Hontheim (1748–1790) Jean-Marie Cuchot d’Herbain (1778–1794) Johann...

Neercassel, Josse Le Plat and especially the famous Van Espen and his disciple Febronius, and as Henri Francotte says: "Jansenism reigned supreme at the University...

of the jurisconsult Zeger Bernhard van Espen. Under the pseudonym of Febronius, Hontheim introduced it into Germany where it took the forms of Febronianism...

katholischen Theologie. Die Geschichte der Auslegung der konstanzer Dekrete von Febronius bis zur Gegenwart (in German). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3110057441...

involved drastic changes in the Tuscan Church on the lines advocated by Febronius. The first decree (Decretum de fide et ecclesia) declared that the Catholic...

(Lucca, 1768; Trent, 1774), is one of the principal apologies against Febronius. Besides writing several works against Jansenism, he took part in the...