Christian Friedrich Heinecken
Christian Heinrich Heineken or Heinecken (February 6, 1721 – June 27, 1725), also known as "the infant scholar of Lübeck", was a German people, German child prodigy who lived only to the age of four. Life He was born in the Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck, Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck, Germany, the son of Paul Heinecken (1674–1746), a painter and architect, and Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken (1683–1757), an artist and alchemist. His brother, Carl Heinrich von Heineken, became an art historian and collector and was later knighted. It is said that when he was ten months old, he could speak German language, German. He read the Pentateuch at age one, and between the ages of two and three, he read the Old Testament, Old and New Testaments in Latin. When he was three years old, he was said to have recited his own ''History of Denmark'' when visiting the Frederick IV of Denmark, King of Denmark. Also at three, he testified in court concerning the murder of his friend, another boy name ...
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