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.
