Heinrich Linstedt

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Attendance list of the Wartburg Festival, in the middle the Leipzig deputies Linstedt and Seyffert, the only ones with a circle

Heinrich Linstedt (* around 1795 in Dresden ; † 1821 in Greece ) was a German Philhellene .

Life

Linstedt studied Protestant theology at the University of Leipzig . In 1814 he was reciprocated with Eduard von Rabenau in the Corps Lusatia . As one of nine delegates from Leipzig University, he took part in the Wartburg Festival in 1817 . In Eisenach he was a member of the preparatory committee. At the elevator to the Wartburg he was the "orderly Burgmann".

In August 1821, the Leipzig Rector Wilhelm Traugott Krug published an appeal to support the Greek fight for freedom against the Turks . Linstedt volunteered and fell in the same year at the age of 26. In Nafplio he is mentioned on the memorial plaque in the church for the transfiguration of Christ.

literature

  • Bernhard Sommerlad : Wartburg Festival and Corps students . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 16 (1979), pp. 16-42.
  • Egbert Weiß (Ed.): 89. Linstedt, Heinrich August , in: Aktiv in der Monarchie. Leipzig Corps students 1807–1918. Curricula vitae of the Leipziger Lausitzer , Volume 1 of the register of the Corps Lusatia. Leipzig 2017. ISBN 978-3-96049-017-3 , p. 64.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 149/91.
  2. ^ Bernhard Sommerlad : Wartburg Festival and Corps students. Then and now . Vol. 24 (1979), p. 39 (No. 47).
  3. ↑ The Catholic Church of the Transfiguration of Christ
  4. ^ Fallen Philhellenes from Bavaria (Intelligence Journal from Swabia and Neuburg, 1846)
personal data
SURNAME Linstedt, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linnstedt, Heinrich; Linstedt, Heinrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theology student in Leipzig, Philhellene
DATE OF BIRTH around 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1821
Place of death Greece