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Sep 27, 1771 Died on 27 Jan 1849 (aged 77)
German theologian
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About Julius Wegscheider
- Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider (27 September 1771 – 27 January 1849), was a German Protestant theologian. He was born at Küblingen (now a part of Schöppenstedt, Lower Saxony).
- He studied theology at the University of Helmstedt, where he was a pupil of Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke.
- From 1795 to 1805, he worked as a tutor to the family of a wealthy Hamburg merchant.
- In 1805 he presented a dissertation titled Graecorum mysteriis religioni non obtrudendis at the University of Göttingen.
- He then served as a professor of theology at the University of Rinteln (1806–1810), and at the University of Halle from 1810 onwards.Wegscheider was a leading figure of dogmatic theological rationalism — for instance, he considered supernatural revelation to be an impossibility.
- Because of his rationalist teachings, he, along with his colleague Wilhelm Gesenius, were attacked by followers of Supernaturalism, creating a situation that led to a government investigation (1830).
- Ultimately, he retained his office at Halle, but lost his former influence.
