The Wonderboy of Lübeck. The extraordinary life of Christian Heinrich Heinecken.

This book tells the story of one of the most famous wonderboys of modern times, that Christian Heinrich Heinecken who was born in Lübeck on the 6th of February 1721. To reconstruct his biography, the author relied on a wide range of sources since the celebrity of his family and the echoes of his achievements - that won him the immortal title of the "wonderboy of Lübeck" - spurred the publication of dozens of books, articles, poems, essays and orations. These texts, together with the contents of the journal written by his preceptor Christian von Schöneich, published posthumously in 1779, inspired the retelling of the story, whose facts, despite their astonishing and exceptional nature, happened for real