Johann Heinrich Winckler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German scholar
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Place of Birth: Wiegendorf, Thuringia, Germany
About Johann Heinrich Winckler
- Johann Heinrich Winckler was a German scholar of wide interests.
- He is perhaps best remembered as a physicist. Winckler attended school in Luban and went on to study in Leipzig.
- At the beginning of the 1730s he was a teacher (collega quartus) at the Thomasschule in Leipzig.
- In 1732 he wrote the libretto of Froher Tag, verlangte Stunde, a cantata to mark the renovation of the school.
- It was set to music by his colleague Johann Sebastian Bach.
- By the end of the 1730s he was teaching at Leipzig University.
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