Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen (1663 - 1727) was a 17th-century German philologist. He received his Master's degree (the highest degree available at that time) from the University of Leipzig in 1685. His dissertation, titled Disputationem Moralem De Divortiis Secundum Jus Naturae (Moral Disputation on Divorce according to the Law of Nature), was written under the direction of his father in law^[1] and advisor Otto Mencke. He was from 1692 until the time of his death a professor of Near Eastern languages and university librarian at the University of Wittenberg, and gave courses there in Philosophy and Hebrew. Ilsenburg, a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, romantically situated under the north foot of the Harz Mountains, at the entrance to the Ilsethal, 6 miles NW. from Wernigerode by the railway (Deutsche Bundesbahn InterRegio route) to Goslar. ... Statue of Martin Luther in the main square Wittenberg, officially [Die] Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is a town in Germany, in the Bundesland Saxony-Anhalt, at 12° 59 E, 51° 51 N, on the Elbe river. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Philology, etymologically, is the love of words. It is most accurately defined as an affinity toward the learning of the backgrounds as well as the current usages of spoken or written methods of human communication. The commonality of studied languages is more important than their origin or age (that is... The Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg is located in the German cities of Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Wittenberg. ... Alma mater is Latin for nourishing mother. It was used in ancient Rome as a title for the mother goddess, and in Medieval Christianity for the Virgin Mary. ... The University of Leipzig (German Universität Leipzig), located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony (former Kingdom of Saxony), Germany, is one of the oldest universities in Europe. ... Otto Mencke was a 17th-century German philosopher and scientist. ... Christian August Hausen (born June 19, 1693 in Dresden, Germany; died 1743 in Leipzig, Germany) was a German mathematician who is known for his research on electricity. ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The University of Leipzig (German Universität Leipzig), located in Leipzig in the Free State of Saxony (former Kingdom of Saxony), Germany, is one of the oldest universities in Europe. ... Otto Mencke was a 17th-century German philosopher and scientist. ... Inhabitants of the Near East, late nineteenth century. ... Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg The Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg is located in the German city Halle, Saxony-Anhalt. ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... The word Hebrew most likely means to cross over, referring to the Semitic people crossing over the Euphrates River. ...

Among the books he published are De extinctione ordinis Templariorum (The extinction of the Templars), 1687^[2] and many short works on aspects of the Old Testament. For other uses, see Knights Templar (disambiguation). ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations · Other religions Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box:      Note: Judaism...

Today, Wichmannshausen is best known as part of a line of scientific genealogy stretching from Mencke to Gauss and to many other mathematicians. As of 2007, the Mathematics Genealogy Project lists 36826 of his academic descendants. An academic, or scientific, genealogy, is an attempt to organise a family tree of scientists and scholars according to dissertation supervision relationships. ... Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (pronounced ,  ; in German usually Gauß, Latin: ) (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician and scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, electrostatics, astronomy, and optics. ... 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Notes

1. ^ Michael Renardy in the comments and explanation for his academic genealogy observes that this double connection to Mencke "puts a twist on his thesis title".
2. ^ According to Batley (1999), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing used Wichmannshausen's work to research his own writings on the Templars, but found it "reserved and short-sighted" compared to that of Christian Thomasius. Batley, Edward M. (1999). "Lessing's Templars and the reform of German Freemasonry". German Life and Letters 52 (3): 297–313. doi:10.1111/1468-0483.00136. 

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (22 January 1729 – 15 February 1781), writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic, was one of the most outstanding German representatives of the Enlightenment era. ... Christian Thomasius, portrait by Johann Christian Heinrich Sporleder. ... A digital object identifier (or DOI) is a standard for persistently identifying a piece of intellectual property on a digital network and associating it with related data, the metadata, in a structured extensible way. ...

External links

• Johann Christoph Wichmannshausen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Register of German biography (Copyright (C) 1997-2006 Bernhard Ebneth (Neue Deutsche Biographie, Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften)
• British Library Integrated Catalog