Background
He was born at Küblingen (now a part of Schöppenstedt, Lower Saxony).
theologian university professor
He was born at Küblingen (now a part of Schöppenstedt, Lower Saxony).
He studied theology at the University of Helmstedt, where he was a pupil of Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke.
From 1795 to 1805, he worked as a tutor to the family of a wealthy Hamburg merchant. In 1805 he was repentant at the University of Göttingen with a dissertation titled Graecorum mysteriis religioni non obtrudendis, he then served as a professor of theology at the University of Rinteln (1806–1810), and at the University of Halle from 1810 onwards. Ultimately, he retained his office at Halle, but lost his former influence.
Wegscheider was a leading figure of dogmatic theological rationalism — for instance, he considered supernatural revelation to be an impossibility.