Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider [SEP] occupation
Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider
Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider (February 11, 1776 in Gersdorf, Saxony – January 22, 1848 in Gotha, Thuringia) was a German Protestant scholar and theologian from Gersdorf, Saxony. He is noted for, among other things, having planned and founded the monumental "Corpus Reformatorum".
In 1794 he entered the University of Leipzig, where he studied theology for four years. After some years of hesitation he resolved to be ordained, and in 1802 he passed with great distinction the examination for candidatus theologiae
Bretschneider
Bretschneider is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andreas Bretschneider (born 1989), German artistic gymnast
- Carl Anton Bretschneider (1808–1878), German mathematician
- Bretschneider's formula, for the area of a quadrilateral
- Emil Bretschneider (1833–1901), German sinologist
- Frank Bretschneider (born 1956), German electronic musician
- Heinrich Gottfried von Bretschneider (1739–1810), German satirical writer
- Johann Michael Bretschneider (1680–1729), German painter
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