Christian Ernst von Windheim

Christian Ernst von Windheim (born October 29, 1722 in Wernigerode , † November 5, 1766 in Timmenrode ) was a Protestant theologian and orientalist .

Life

He was the son of the Count of Stolberg's Landdrost, councilor and landlord Rudolf August von Windheim (1690–1766) and attended the Martineum in Braunschweig . From 1741 he studied philosophy, theology and law at the University of Halle and passed the master’s examination in 1745. His brother, who was two years younger than him, later became the Finance Councilor and Prussian civil servant Rudolf August von Windheim (1724–1777), also studied law in Halle from 1743 and then in Göttingen. Christian Ernst moved to the University of Helmstedt , where he completed his habilitation. In 1747 Windheim became an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Göttingen . In 1750 he accepted the call to the University of Erlangen , where he became a full professor of philosophy and oriental languages and lived until his death. In 1761 he was also given permission to hold theological lectures. In the last years of his life he also dealt with economics and natural history.

In 1760 he was appointed headmaster and scholarch of the grammar school in Erlangen. In 1762 he married Friederike von Reitzenstein (born 1739).

He died on one of his inherited estates in the principality of Blankenburg, to which he had traveled because of his father's illness.

Works (selection)

Letter to HF Delius - a thorough scholar of God, knowledge of the art of medicine is useful and necessary , Halle 1743
Göttingische philosophische Bibliothek (8 vols.), Hanover 1749–1755
Outline of an ethics of the learned , in: Erlanger learned advertisements, 1751
General canon law of Protestants , Helmstedt 1760

literature

Paul Tschackert : Windheim, Christian Ernst von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 43, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1898, pp. 388-390.
Heinrich Doering : The learned theologians of Germany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Verlag Johann Karl Gottfried Wagner, 1835, Neustadt an der Orla, vol. 4, p. 726 ( online )

Web links

Literature by and about Christian Ernst von Windheim in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

↑ Master roll copy of the von Windheim family and their descendants from 1882 handed over to the Halle University Library Official website of the University Library (accessed on July 2, 2017)

personal data
SURNAME	Windheim, Christian Ernst from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Protestant theologian and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 29, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wernigerode
DATE OF DEATH	November 5, 1766
Place of death	Timmenrode

[1] Master roll copy of the von Windheim family and their descendants from 1882 handed over to the Halle University Library Official website of the University Library (accessed on July 2, 2017)