Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider (27 September 1771 – 27 January 1849), was a German Protestant theologian.
He studied theology at the University of Helmstedt, where he was a pupil of Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke.
In 1805 he presented a dissertation titled Graecorum mysteriis religioni non obtrudendis at the University of Göttingen.
[1] Wegscheider was a leading figure of dogmatic theological rationalism—for instance, he considered supernatural revelation to be an impossibility.
[2] Because of his rationalist teachings, he, along with his colleague Wilhelm Gesenius, were attacked by followers of Supernaturalism, creating a situation that led to a government investigation (1830).