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Authorised form of nameWeichman; Christian Frederick (1698 - 1770)
Dates1698 - 1770
NationalityGerman
Place of birthHarburg, Germany
Date of birth24 August 1698
Place of deathWolfenbuttel, Germany
Date of death04 August 1770
OccupationPoet; Editor
ActivityEducation:
Halle (admitted 1716); Oxford; BCL (1728)
Career:
Tutor in the household of Duke Philipp Ernst of Schleswig-Holstein in Glucksburg (1720); went to Hamburg (1721); Editor of 'Gelehrten Sachen' (1722-1725), of the 'Patriot' (journal of the Hamburger Patriotische Gesellschaft); went to London with the editorial committee (1728); in the service of Duke Ludwig Rudolf at Blankenberg; Counsellor to the Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg (1734)
Memberships:
Deutsche Gesellschaft in Gottingen (1754)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election27/06/1728
ProposerRichard Bentley
William Derham
Sir Hans Sloane
Other Royal Society activityIn printed list to 1756
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DBE
CodeNA211
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
LBO/19/94Copy letter from Christian Frederick Weichman, London, to Hans Sloane1 June 1728
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