Christian Heinrich Heineken
Christian Heinrich Heineken ( born February 6, 1721 Lübeck, † June 27, 1725 ) attracted a Lübeck prodigy by his extreme intellectual precocity in his short life quite a stir.
Life
Heineken was already at the age of ten months will be able to name all the objects and pictures to explain. Soon he could read and marked by enormous memory performance - as he recited eg large passages from the Bible by heart and showed broad geographical, historical and mathematical knowledge. Heineken dominated biennial already Latin and French and wrote three years, a history of Denmark. The Danish King Frederick IV, who received him in audience on September 9, 1724 described him as a " Miraculum ". Immanuel Kant called it an " early wise prodigy ephemerischer existence " and a " digressions nature of their rule." The composer Georg Philipp Telemann wrote several poems in his short life.
The celebrity Heineken, which was often encouraged by his parents, the Lübeck painter and architect Paul Heineken and flower painter, art dealer and alchemist Catharina Elisabeth Heineken, meant that he constantly appeared and was for a time on the road. The public rewarded these appearances while with enthusiasm, but for the family and especially the child they were increasingly a burden.
Heineken died after several months of suffering phase at that time unknown celiac disease. That he was ever so old, his nurse Sophie was due to Hildebrandt, who had nursed him for years. The increasing food grain products led to his death.
His older brother, Carl Heinrich von Heineken was in the service of Count Brühl and was known as an art collector and connoisseur.
Works
- In Lübekischen dreyjährigen Knabens Christian Henrich Heineken Vorschmak the old and new mitlern Danish history, of which reinforced most historians of the Kingdom of Dänemarck pulled kurtzbündigst, and erlernet of the same after vorhergefasseter universal history in his third year. Koop, Lübeck 1724.
- The Famous Lübeckischen infant, Christian Henrich Heineken, arrival and farewell speeches, to His Royal Majesty Dännemarck and Norway, Frederick the Vierdten, bey of him Friedenburg 9 Septembr. 1724 ertheilten gracious Audientz. Lübeck 1724.