Johann Heinrich Linck (the younger)
Johann Heinrich Linck the Younger (* 1734 in Leipzig ; † 1807 in Gut Zöbigker near Querfurt ) was a German pharmacist , natural scientist and collector.
Life
Linck was born one month after the death of his father Johann Heinrich Linck (the Elder) . Until he joined his father's pharmacy Zum Goldenen Löwen in Leipzig, his mother, Maria Elisabeth, née Döring, ran it with the involvement of a foreign pharmacist. The same was true of the extensive collection started by his grandfather and continued by his father, the Linck'sche Naturalien- und Kuriositätenkabinett . She was supported by the Leipzig doctor Johann Ernst Hebenstreit .
In 1757 Linck took over the management of the pharmacy. When increasing the collection, he preferred art to natural objects. The collection included the animal kingdom, mineral kingdom, vegetable kingdom, and art and a library of approximately 1200 volumes. There were 800 glasses "with all kinds of animals preserved in spiritu balsamico", including snakes, monkeys, crocodiles and other exotic animals as well as over 200 drawers or boxes with minerals and fossils. An extensive herbarium, corals and physical instruments completed the cabinet. Linck reorganized the collection and made it publicly available in 1767. According to the visitor book, the first visitor was the 17-year-old Saxon Elector Friedrich August III. From 1783 to 1787 Linck published a three-volume directory of the collection under the title "Index Musaei Linckiani, or a short systematic directory of the most distinguished items in the Linckische Naturaliensammlung zu Leipzig".
In 1773 Linck built a garden house on his garden property adjoining the Grossbosischer Garten , which has been reconstructed in the last few years in accordance with the requirements of a listed building. Here on September 17, 1774, the impostor and ghost seer Johann Georg Schrepfer was arrested, who had become friends with Linck probably for the purpose of using the instruments in his collection.
In 1760 Linck received the title of Kommerzienrat, and in 1770 he was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .
Linck survived his children and died without direct descendants. In 1818 the pharmacist August Rohde bought the pharmacy and collection from Linck's widow, Dorothea, b. Schumann. In 1840 the Linck collection was sold to Prince Otto Victor I von Schönburg , who built a special museum for it, in which it can still be seen today.
Linck was a member of the Minerva Masonic Lodge on the Three Palms .
Works
- Johann Heinrich Linck the Elder J .: Index Musaei Linckiani, or a short systematic index of the most distinguished pieces of the Linckische Naturaliensammlung zu Leipzig , 3 vols., Leipzig 1783–1787.
literature
- Veit Hammer: Linck, Johann Heinrich d. J. . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
- Ralph Krüger: The natural products cabinet of the Linck family of pharmacists . In: Leipziger Blätter No. 35, 1999, pp. 56–58
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 600 years of Löwen Apotheke Leipzig , Pharmazeutische Zeitung , accessed on April 18, 2014
- ↑ Otto Werner Förster: Death of a ghost seer. Johann Georg Schrepfer , Taurus Verlag Leipzig, 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810303-0-3 , p. 44
- ↑ OW Förster: Death of a Spirit Seer , p. 37
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linck, Johann Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1734 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1807 |
| Place of death | Gut Zöbigker near Querfurt |