Walch, CHRISTIAN WILHELM FRANZ

Walch, CHRISTIAN WILHELM FRANZ, was born at Jena in 1726, in 1754 became extra-ordinary, in 1757 ordinary, professor of Theology at Göttingen, and died 10th March 1784. His name survives in the durable worth of his contributions to church history: Gedanken von der Geschichte der Glaubenslehre (1756), Entwurf einer Historie der Ketzerreien, bis auf die Reformation (11 vols. 1762-85), and Neueste Religionsgeschichte (9 vols. 1771-83).—His father, JOHANN GEORG WALCH (1693-1775), was long professor of Theology at Jena, edited Luther's works (24 vols. Halle, 1740-52), and wrote a work of great value on the history of the religious controversies within the Evangelical-Lutheran Church (5 vols. 1730-39), and its complement, on those without that church (5 vols. 1733-36).