Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim

Johann Nikolaus von Honthorst Home (* January 27, 1701 in Trier, † September 2, 1790 in Montquintin, Belgium; Febronius also Justinus ) was a Catholic Bishop and critics of the position of the Pope in the Catholic Church.

Life

Hontheim came from an old patrician family in Trier, where he attended the Jesuit school and studied in Trier, lions and suffering Jura, in Leuven as a pupil of canonists Zeger Bernhard van Espen. In 1724 he received his doctorate in Trier Doctor of Laws. He then decided, however, to become a priest and to meet the administrative practice of the Curia in Rome. After his return to Germany, he became a decent assessors on Generalvikariat, 1733 Professor of Roman Law ( Pandekten and Codex ) at the old University of Trier. In 1738 he became head of the Koblenz Offizialats, 1742 privy of Archbishop Francis George and 1748 Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Trier. He received his episcopal consecration of the Bishop of Mainz Christoph fog on 16 February in 1749.

The last ten years of his life were spent mainly on his estate Montquintin in Luxembourg. He died there in 1790.

Works

His Historia Trevirensis diplomatica (Trier in 1750, 3 volumes; said: Prodromus, Trier 1757, 2 volumes) followed under the pseudonym " Justin Febronius " De statu ecclesiae et the book legitima potestate Romani Pontificis liber singularis (Frankfurt 1763). Herein tied Hontheim at the councils of Constance and Basel, at the Diet of Worms of 1521 and various concordats and the Gallican and directed in particular against the papal primacy of jurisdiction and procedures of the Curia in the management and occupation of the Dioceses of Luxemburg and Lorraine neighborhood. This was linked with the hope of overcoming the existing since the Reformation confessional cleavage. Hontheim demanded that the Pope should be subordinate to a general council and the position of the bishops to be strengthened against the popes. The Pope himself admits Hontheim after Augustin, Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Peter de Marca, van Espen and others, only an honorary primacy among the bishops to.

The work, which he had dedicated to the Pope himself, was frequently reprinted and translated into several languages, but forbidden by the Pope on February 27, 1764, placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and burned in Rome.

As Hont home was finally discovered as a writer, he was in 1778 forced by threats and promises to cancellation. After the contents of the 1781 published in Vienna * Febronii commentarius in suam retractationem ( " comment Febronius to his right " ) the revocation, however, does not seem to have been serious.

Notwithstanding the papal condemnation was " the Febronius " significant impact on the Koblenz grievances from 1769 and the Emser Punktation of 1786.

• Historia Trevirensis Diplomatica Et Pragmatica: Inde A Translata Treveri Praefectura Praetorian Galliarum, ad Haec Usque tenses: E Genuinis Scripturis Eruta, Atque Ita digesta, Ut Non Solum Jus Publicum particulare Archiepiscopatus & Electoratus Trevirensis In Suis Fontibus Plenissime Exhibeat, Sed Et Historiam Civilem & Ecclesiasticam Germaniae, Ejusque singularia Jura Publications Ac Privata Illustret. Veith, Augustae Vind. 1750 ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf ) T. 1 From Anno Domini CCCCXVIII. Usque Ad Annum MCCCI. 1750
• 2 From anno Domini MCCCI. usque ad annum MDLXVII. 1750
• 3 From anno Domini MDLXVII. usque ad annum MDCCXLV. 1750