Christian Ludwig Scheidt

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Christian Ludwig Scheidt (born September 26, 1709 in Waldenburg (Württemberg) , † October 25, 1761 in Hanover ) was a German lawyer and historian as well as the poet of the hymn " I shall be saved by grace ".

Life

As the son of a count's bailiff and councilor, Scheidt attended the school in Oehringen and studied at the universities of Altdorf and Strasbourg from 1724 to 1730 after passing the high school diploma . In Altdorf he heard Christian Gottlieb Schwartz's lectures . In 1732 he traveled with friends to Switzerland, France and Holland. In 1734 he went to Halle and in 1736 to Göttingen . In 1737 he received his doctorate in law and received a post as associate professor at the law faculty the following year. The following year he received a call to the University of Copenhagen , where he was rector in 1746/47. He became a Danish consistorial advisor, but then returned in 1748 and became a councilor and librarian in Hanover.

During his short stay in Göttingen, he married the daughter of the well-known publisher Schmauß. The marriage had eight children, all of whom died very young. After he became aware of his wife's adultery, he divorced her in 1758 and remarried in the same year.

In 1751 he was elected a foreign member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1760 he was appointed a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of rectors on the University of Copenhagen website
  2. Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 212.
  3. Prof. Dr. Christian Ludwig von Scheidt , member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences

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