The Correspondent

Christian Ludwig Scheidt was born on 25 September 1709 in Waldenburg (Hohenlohe), where his father was an Amtmann and Rat. He matriculated at Altdorf in October 1728 and at Strasbourg in September 1730. In the latter year he began to serve as tutor to three different noble families. Those duties took him first to Switzerland, France, and Holland, then to the University of Halle, and finally to the University of Göttingen. At Göttingen he took the doctor of law degree in 1737 and was named an extraordinary professor in 1738. In the following year he accepted a call to Copenhagen to become an ordinary professor of law. Ten years later Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen offered him the post of librarian and archivist in Hanover and in the ensuing years often turned to him for advice in matters affecting the university in Göttingen. He retained that post until he died, on 25 October 1761.