Karl Gottlieb von Windisch
Karl Gottlieb von Windisch (, , January 28, 1725,
Pressburg – March 30, 1793, Pressburg) was a
Hungarian German writer who produced a series of letters that were published as ''"Briefe über den Schachspieler von Kempelen nebst drey Kupferstichen die diese berühmte Maschine vorstellen"'', translated as ''"Inanimate Reason; or a Circumstantial Account of That Astonishing Piece of Mechanism, M. de Kempelen's Chess-Player; Now Exhibiting at No. 9 Savile-Row,
Burlington Gardens"'', following a series of performances of
The Turk that he attended. The letters have been cited often since their publication in attempts to uncover the secret of the machine. Windisch spoke
Slovak and
Hungarian and was the first publisher of an academic Journal in Eastern Europe.
Provided by Wikipedia