Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck
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Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck | |
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| Born | September 4, 1741 |
| Died | June 15, 1810 (aged 68) |
| Occupation | Historian |
Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck (4 September 1741, in Idstein–15 June 1810, in Leipzig) was a German historian. His older brother, Helfrich Bernhard Wenck (1739–1803), was also a historian.
Beginning in 1760, he studied history at the University of Erlangen, then in 1766–68, he worked as an assistant at the Darmstadt Pädagogium. In 1770, he acquired the academic degree of magister of philosophy, and during the following year, became an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Leipzig. In 1780, he succeeded Johann Gottlob Böhme (1717–1780) as professor of history at Leipzig. Within a twenty-year period (1784–1804), on five separate occasions, he served as university rector.[1] In 1799, he was named president of the Societas Jablonoviana.[2]
