Christian Heinrich Heineken

Christian Heinrich Heineken or Heinecken (February 6, 1721 – June 27, 1725), also known as "the infant scholar of Lübeck", was a German child prodigy who lived only to the age of four.

[1][2] His brother, Carl Heinrich von Heineken, became an art historian and collector and was later knighted.

[1] Also at three, he testified in court concerning the murder of his friend, another boy named Reid.

In 1726, his tutor (a man named Schöneich) published a study of Christian entitled The Life, Deeds, Travels and Death of the Child of Lübeck.

[1][5] Immanuel Kant, in his book Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, cited Heineken as an "ingenium praecox" (someone "prematurely clever").