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HEINECKEN, See also:CHRISTIAN HEINRICH (1721-1725) , a See also:child remarkable for precocity of See also:intellect, was See also:born on the 6th of See also:February 1721 at See also:Lubeck, where his See also:father was a painter. Able to speak at the See also:age of ten months, by the See also:time he was oae See also:year old he knew by See also:heart the See also:principal incidents in the See also:Pentateuch. At two years of age he had mastered sacred See also:history; at three he was intimately acquainted with history and See also:geography, See also:ancient and See also:modern, sacred and profane, besides being able to speak See also:French and Latin; and in his See also:fourth year he devoted himself to the study of See also:religion and See also:church history. This wonderful precocity was no See also:mere feat of memory, for the youthful savant could See also:reason on and discuss the knowledge he had acquired. Crowds of See also:people flocked to Lubeck to see the wonderful child; and in 1724 he was taken to See also:Copenhagen at the See also:desire of the See also:king of See also:Denmark. On his return to Lubeck he began to learn See also:writing, but his sickly constitution gave way, and he died on the 22nd of See also:June 1725. The See also:Life, Deeds, Travels and See also:Death of the Child of Liibeck were published in the following year by his See also:tutor Schoneich. See also Teutsche Bibliothek, xvii., and Memoires de Trevoux (See also:Jan. 1731).

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