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I want to translate (something like) the following:
Chris, in his infinite wisdom, has...
In English, in so.’s infinite wisdom is a sarcastic way of saying that you think what someone did was stupid.
Would the correct translation be something like:
In seiner unendlichen Weisheit hat Chris...
or is this untranslatable, in which case, is there another German idiom which means something similar?
In seiner unendlichen Weisheit is correct and idiomatic, i.e., it is actually used by native speakers. However, there are two other idiomatic alternatives you might want to consider:
In seiner nicht enden wollenden Weisheit: Nicht enden wollend liteally means not wanting to end and thus the phrase almost means the same as your suggestion. The slight difference is that nicht enden wollend implies that Chris’ has a history of doing stupid things – his current action demonstrates that he is yet undepleted as a source of wisdom stupidity.
Die Weisheit mit Löffeln fressen: This literally means to eat wisdom with spoons. It can be used ironically and non-ironical (in which case it is often negated). Temporally, you first eat the wisdom and then act because of it. You might use it in your example sentence as follows:
Chris hat die Weisheit mit Löffeln gefressen: Er hat …
Chris, der die Weisheit mit Löffeln gefressen hat(te), hat …
"In seiner unendlichen Weisheit" is exactly correct and expresses the intended sarcasm.
