Heinrich Linck
Heinrich Linck (* 1638 in Danzig ; † 1717 in Leipzig ) was a German pharmacist and founder of an important natural history cabinet .
Life
Heinrich Linck's father was a pharmacist in Danzig. No information is available about Heinrich's childhood and youth. When he was about 30 years old, he moved to Leipzig and in 1669 took the job of a commissioner in the oldest pharmacy in the city, the Löwen-Apotheke , so he was a trained pharmacist. In 1671 he leased the pharmacy and bought it in 1686.
Linck began collecting around 1670, initially with a herbarium related to a pharmacy . Other areas were added, especially when in 1694 he found 6,000 gold coins and fragments of a golden crown and a golden breastplate. A collection of natural objects and curiosities was created , which was continued and expanded both by his son Johann Heinrich Linck the Elder and his grandson Johann Heinrich Linck the Younger .
After Heinrich Linck had built a new baroque building for the Löwen pharmacy in Grimmaische Strasse in 1705/1706, the natural and curiosity cabinet was housed here on the third floor. The collection included exhibits from the animal, mineral and plant kingdoms. These included specimens from exotic animals, corals, but also physical instruments. The collection was one of the city's main attractions.
In 1710 Heinrich Linck handed the pharmacy over to his sons Christian Heinrich and Johann Heinrich. After that, Christian Heinrich mainly took care of the pharmacy, while Johann Heinrich pursued his scientific research and looked after the collection.
After the Linck family died out, the collection was sold in 1840 to Prince Otto Victor I von Schönburg , who set up a special museum for this purpose , in which it can still be seen today.
Works
- Dissertatio Iuridica De Metallis Eorumque Fodinis , Jena 1671, digitized
literature
- Veit Hammer: Linck, Heinrich . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- Michael Sauter: 600 years of Löwen Apotheke Leipzig . In: Pharmaceutical newspaper. 154th year, 2009, issue 51/52, pp. 105–107 ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralph Krüger: The natural history cabinet of the Linck family of pharmacists . In: Leipziger Blätter No. 35, 1999, p. 57
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linck, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist and founder of an important natural history cabinet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1638 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1717 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |