August Adolph von Hennings (19 July 1746,

Pinneberg Pinneberg (; ) is a town in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany. It is the capital of the Pinneberg (district), district of Pinneberg and has a population of about 43,500 inhabitants. Pinneberg is located 18 km northw ...

– 17 May 1826, Rantzau) was a politician, publicist and writer of the

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, born in the

Duchy of Holstein The Duchy of Holstein (; ) was the northernmost state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the present German state of Schleswig-Holstein. It originated when King Christian I of Denmark had his County of Holstein-Rendsburg elevated to a duchy ...

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" Christian Degn: ''Die Herzogtümer im Gesamtstaat 1773 - 1830''. In Olaf Klose, Christian Degn (ed.): ''Geschichte Schleswig-Holsteins''. Vol. 6 - 1721 - 1830. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1960, ; . His elder sister Sophia (1742–1817) married the physician Johann Albert Heinrich Reimarus.

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1746 births 1826 deaths People from the Duchy of Holstein Writers from Denmark–Norway 18th-century Danish politicians Danish male writers {{Denmark-writer-stub