Christoph Gottlieb von Murr

Christoph Gottlieb von Murr (6 August 1733 – 8 April 1811) was a polymathic German scholar, based in Nuremberg.

[1] Christoph Gottlieb von Murr studied at the University of Altdorf and received his doctorate in law in 1754.

On his study trips made from 1756–61 through the Netherlands, England, Austria and Italy, he established relationships with numerous scholars with whom he was in active correspondence throughout his life, and he acquired an extensive collection of art and autographs.

Friedrich Schiller used Murr's monograph (based on archives in Vienna) on the history of the Thirty Years War [2] as a basis when he wrote Wallenstein.

Peter Wolf, « Protestantischer ‘Jesuitismus’ im Zeitalter der Aufklärung : Christoph Gottlieb Murr (1733–1811) und die Jesuiten », Zeitschrift für bayerische Landesgeschichte, LXII, 1999, p. 99-137.