Johann Michael von Loën

Johann Michael von Loen

Johann Michael von Loën (11 December 1694 in Frankfurt am Main - 24 July 1776 in Lingen, Ems) was a German writer and statesman. His The Honest Man at Court 1748, was translated into English in 1997.[1] He was great uncle of Goethe, born in 1749.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Klaus Epstein - The Genesis of German Conservatism - 2015 1400868238 Page 186 The best contemporary description of the eighteenth-century German aristocracy is to be found in Johann Michael von Loen, Der Redliche...
  2. ↑ Joachim Whaley Religious Toleration and Social Change in Hamburg, 1529-1819 -0521528720 2002 - Preview "His immediate inspiration was the work of his uncle Johann Michael von Loen, one of the most prominent German polemicists of religious toleration ; but his youthful exercise reflected one of the major preoccupations of the age."
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