Conrad Theodor Linker

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Conrad Theodor Linker (also Lincker, Lyncker or Lüncker; * December 25, 1622 in Marburg ; † December 30, 1660 ibid) was a German medic .

Life

Conrad Theodor Linker was the son of the Mayor of Marburg Conrad Linker (1572-1657) and Catharina Dorstenius († 1650), daughter of Theodosius Dorstenius, mayor in Marburg. Linker studied at the University of Marburg , was appointed teacher by Georg II of Hessen-Darmstadt in 1642 and was supposed to take care of the three children of the late Simon Ludwig zur Lippe . After Hermann Otto and Ludwig Christian died of smallpox in 1646 , Linker traveled with Simon Philipp to Paris , Grenoble , Rome , Milan and Florence , where Simon Philipp also fell ill with smallpox and died there on June 19, 1650.

After his return to Germany, Linker resumed studying medicine, received his doctorate on September 2, 1652 at the University of Giessen and was elected a member ( matriculation no. 9 ) of the Academia Naturae Curiosorum , today's Leopoldina , on December 30, 1652 . In 1653 he was appointed to the Hessian-Kasselian court medicus and professor of medicine and eloquence at the University of Marburg and accompanied both professorships until his death on December 30, 1660.

Linker's first marriage on April 21, 1657 was Anna Christine Speirmann, who gave him a daughter (Sybille Catharina, later Funck) and died on February 11, 1658 in childbed . The philologist Johann Nicolaus Funck was his grandson. In his second marriage, on May 5, 1660, he married Anna Catharina Goeddaeus, daughter of the Marburg professor Johannes Goddaeus .

Works (selection)

  • Theatrum historico-politicum Tabulas Chronologicas, vicissitudines juxta regnorum variorum eventuum, et interranum Orbe summorum Principatuum, sacrarum et Politicarum Rerum seriem, Temporum motus, Personarum Characteres; Actionum quasi Aquarum ducius, Prudentiae Civilis Fundamenta, à condito Mundo in seculum quod currit facile memoriae succintè exhibens. Iohan Kürsnerus, Marburgi Cattorum 1664, urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10928849-8 (Latin, VD 17 12: 681446U , not identical to 23: 232431D ).

literature

  • Andreas Elias Büchner : Academiae Sacri Romani Imperii Leopoldino-Carolinae Natvrae Cvriosorvm Historia. Litteris et impensis Ioannis Iustini Gebaueri, Halae Magdebvrgicae 1755, De Collegis, p. 463 digitized
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Conrad Dieterich Lyncker . In: Basis for a Hessian Scholar and Writer History . From the Reformation to the present day. tape 8 . In Commission im Cramerischen Buchladen, Cassel 1788, p. 185-186 .
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund : Lincker, Lyncker, Lüncker, (Conrad Dietrich or Theodor) . In: Continuations and additions to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher's general lexico of scholars in which the writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings . tape 3 . Printed by Georg Jöntzen, Delmenhorst 1810, Sp. 1857 .
  • Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the imperial Leopoldino-Carolinische German academy of natural scientists during the second century of its existence. Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, p. 188 .
  • Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 147 ( archive.org ).

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personal data
SURNAME Linker, Conrad Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1622
PLACE OF BIRTH Marburg
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1660
Place of death Marburg