Christoph Heidmann

Christoph Heidmann (Latin Christophorus Heidmannus; * 1582 in Helmstedt (Bodenwerder?

As a university professor, he introduced students such as Hermann Conring and Christoph Schrader to philology.

During the temporary closure of the university due to the plague and the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War in 1625/1626, Heidmann left his hometown and the Academia Julia.

In 1626 he accepted a call from the Academia Sorana to Sorø in Denmark as a professor of oratory .

In 1624 his lecture on Palestine was the first of its kind in the German-speaking world.