Johann Gotthelf Lindner

Johann Gotthelf Lindner (born September 11, 1729 in Schmolsin near Stolp in Western Pomerania ; † March 29, 1776 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Was a German university lecturer and writer during the Enlightenment .

origin

His parents were the consistorial councilor Georg Friedrich Lindner (1701-1747) and his wife Auguste Angelika Zeisich († May 18, 1784). He was the older brother of the physician Ehregott Friedrich Lindner (1733-1816), who was also born in Schmolsin, and the doctor and theologian Gottlob Immanuel Lindner (1734-1818), who was born in Königsberg .

Life

Lindner had taken Protestant theology and philosophy at the Albertus University in Königsberg and completed his studies there in 1749 with a master's degree in philosophy. From 1749 he was rector and inspector of the cathedral school in Riga . From 1765 he was a full professor of poetry at the Albertina. After becoming a Dr. theol. had received his doctorate, he was appointed church and school council in 1775.

In Königsberg, Lindner was a central figure in the Royal German Society (Königsberg) and belonged to the inner circle of the Enlightenmentists Johann Georg Hamann , Theodor Gottfried von Hippel and Immanuel Kant . He was also a member of the Königsberg Freemason Lodge to the three crowns . He published his poetic writings in the Rigischer Anzeiger and in the scholarly and political newspaper in Königsberg. He also wrote school dramas.

family

In 1754 he married Marianne Courtan († 1764), a sister of the merchant Pierre Jeremie Courtan .

Works (selection)

• Textbook of the fine sciences, especially prose and poetry . 2 volumes, 1767/1768. 1st volume, Königsberg and Leipzig 1767 ( full text without folded pages ).
• Brief epitome of aesthetics, rhetoric and poetry . 2 volumes, 1771/1772.
• De eo, quod est poeticum in Sacra Scriptura . Inaugural dissertation 1773, 47 pages ( full text ).
• Treatise of the language in general, and especially of a country, together with a collection of some Lieland provincial words and expressions. In: Contribution to school activities. Königsberg 1762, pp. 207-256.

literature

• German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition (Rudolf Vierhaus, ed.), Saur, Munich 2006, pp. 466–467.
• General encyclopedia of scholars and writers of the provinces of Livonia, Estonia and Courland ( Johann Friedrich von Recke , Karl Eduard Napiersky eds.). III. Band, Mitau 1829, pp. 81-86.
• lu:  Lindner, Johann Gotthelf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 704 f.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Johann Gotthelf Lindner. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital