Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun

Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun

Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun (born January 10, 1714 in Viechtach , † June 14, 1787 in Munich ) was the electoral-Baier coin and mountain ridge and one of the founders of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . His name is also passed down in the spelling Linbrunn, Limbrunn, Limbrun, Lindprun or Linprunn.

origin

Linprun was born in 1714 as the son of a non-aristocratic clerk of the land and nursing court. He studied law and philosophy in Prague , Salzburg and Ingolstadt and at the same time acquired extensive knowledge in the fields of mineralogy and mining . After completing his studies, he initially worked as a clerk of the nursing office, but was appointed to Munich as a mint and miner in 1750 and then repeatedly entrusted with assignments in connection with minting.

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In 1757 he represented Bavaria in Vienna in the negotiations on the so-called coin convention base . In these negotiations between the countries of the German Customs Union (including Bavaria) and Austria and Liechtenstein, the pound was set at 500 grams as the unit for the weight of the coin. His negotiating skills were so outstanding that Emperor Franz I raised him to the imperial nobility for his services.

He also earned special services in Munich together with the main initiator Johann Georg von Lori through his commitment to a Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Its forerunner, the Bavarian learned society , was founded on October 12, 1758 at Burggasse 5 - Linbrunns' home in Munich. In the founding year of the academy (1759), von Linprun was appointed the first director of the Academy's Philosophical Class, whose members initially met in his private home. In 1804, Lorenz von Westenrieder wrote in his history of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , "The gentlemen von Linbrunn and Georg von Lori laid the foundation in Munich for an Academy of Sciences that was to have an impact on all of Germany". Linprun supported Count Sigmund von Haimhausen in the management of the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory as managing director and ultimately managed it from 1767 to 1772 in a time of great financial difficulties and declining demand.

Representation (1764) of the Römerschanze near Grünwald , with the Georgenstein in the Isar . At this point Linprun assumed the bridge of the old Roman road.

In 1763 von Linprun came into the possession of the Laufzorn feudal estate , a hunting lodge comparable to Schleißheim Palace in terms of its architectural design . Through this possession he became aware of an extremely straight road near it. He suspected that this road was evidently an ancient supraregional connection, the end points of which he identified by studying maps in Augsburg and Salzburg . Von Linprun also linked the well-known fact that Roman coins and stone inscriptions had repeatedly been found near his fiefdom with the course of the road: He was the first to identify the first section of the old Roman military road in the area in 1763 , and its further ones Described course with a presumed bridge over the Isar near Georgenstein through own research and published this discovery in 1764.

Honors

The grammar school in his hometown Viechtach bears the name Dominicus von Linprun grammar school in his honor . Linprunstraße is named after him in Munich's Maxvorstadt.

literature

• Wilhelm von Gümbel:  Linbrunn, Johann Georg Dominicus von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 659 f.
• Gudula Metze: Johann Georg Dominikus von Linprun (Linbrunn) . In: Wurst, Jürgen and Langheiter, Alexander (Ed.): Monachia. Munich: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, 2005. P. 47. ISBN 3-88645-156-9
• Ludwig Wamser: Johann Georg Dominicus von Linbrunn (1714–1787). In: Akademie aktuell - journal of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. 03/2006, pp. 4-15, ISSN  1436-753X
• Bavarian annals. Munich, 1834
• Harro Raster: Life and Work of Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun (1714-1787). Reprint from the report on the 1985/86 school year of the Dominicus-von-Linprun-Gymnasium Viechtach (16 pages)

Web links

Commons : Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dominicus von Limbrun: Discovery of a Roman military road near Laufzorn and Grünewald: and explanations of the ancient geography of Bavaria from it.
   In: Treatises of the Churfürſtlich⸗baieriſchen Academy of Sciences, Zweyter Band. Munich, available from Franz Lorenz Richter, 1764, pp. 93-139 ( online ).