Wilhelm von Christ

In 1853 he received his doctorate at Berlin for a work on Aristotle and the next year he became a teacher at the Maximiliansgymnasium [de] in Munich.

In 1860, Christ was appointed extraordinary profossor of Classical philology at the University of Munich; he became an ordinary professor in 1863.

After receiving the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in 1876, he was raised to the nobility as Ritter von Christ.

[1] In 1886, Wilhelm Christ was the first to put forward the theory that the Sea Peoples were identical with Plato's Atlanteans.

[2] Later, this thesis was repeated with variations by scholars and researchers such as Theodor Gomperz, Spyridon Marinatos, Jürgen Spanuth, John V. Luce, and Herwig Görgemanns.