Wilhelm Wägner

Johann Wilhelm Ernst Wägner (September 16, 1800 at Darmstadt, to December 4, 1886 at Kettenheim). Wilhelm Wägner was a German writer, translator and Protestant theologian who was born the son of a court hunter. From a private school, he went to high school, and from 1820 to 1823 studied theology at Gießen. He became court master of the French envoy, Count von Fenelon, and from 1824 to 1827 Wägner was head of a private school for boys. Later he became a teacher at a junior high school and also at a higher trade school. He received his PhD in Dr. phil. in 1832, from November 1842 ran a parish in Ginsheim and in 1859 moved to Kettenheim. Awarded the title of church council in 1877, Wägner died in 1886 at the age of 86.