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but it was not until some years afterwards (1778) that he was called on to retract. Threatened with excommunication and faced with the prospect of his relations losing their offices, Hontheim, after much vacillation and correspondence, signed a submission which was accepted in Rome as satisfactory. The removal of the censure followed (1781) when
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As a historian, Hontheim's reputation rests on his contributions to the history of Trier. During the period of his activity as an official at
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Hontheim is best remembered. His 1763 treatise "On the State of the Church and the Legitimate Power of the Roman Pontiff" offered Europe the "foremost formulation of the arguments against papal absolutism in Germany". The author of the book was known in Rome almost as soon as it was published,
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near Orval, an estate which he had purchased. He was buried at first in St. Simeon's; but the church was ruined by the French during the revolutionary wars and never restored, and in 1803 the body of
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