Kurd von Schöning

Kurd Wolfgang Wilhelm Gustav von Schöning (13 August 1789, Morrn (Murzynowo), Landsberg an der Warthe – 2 April 1859, Potsdam) was a Prussian major general and historian of the army.

He was the son of Christian Stephan von Schöning (born 1752, died 30 October 1802) and Albertine Juliane Therese Tugendreich (d 1844).

Von Schöning wrote several volumes of Prussian historical notes which served as a primary source for the English work by historian Thomas Carlyle's 'History of Friedrich II of Prussia'.

Villa Schöningen is a historic building in Potsdam at the corner of Berlin Street and Swan Avenue where von Schöning and his family resided until his death in 1859.

His apparent verbose writings lead Carlyle to comment, "(One) specimen distilled faithfully out of that huge jumbling sea of Schöning and rendered legible."