Johann Heinrich Linck (the elder)
Johann Heinrich Linck (the elder; born December 17, 1674 in Leipzig ; † October 29, 1734 ibid) was a German pharmacist and naturalist .
Life
After training in his father Heinrich Linck's pharmacy , he made extensive trips to numerous European countries, where he made scientific contacts. In 1710, together with his brother Christian Heinrich, he took over his father's pharmacy Zum Goldenen Löwen in Leipzig and continued his father's mineral and curiosity collection ( Lincksches Naturalienkabinett ), a forerunner of modern museums .
As a researcher, he worked intensively on starfish . In 1733 he published “De stellis marinis liber singularis”, a groundbreaking work on the previously little-known starfish, which he divided into the still valid orders of asteroids and ophiuroids . The starfish genus Linckia was named after him.
Linck was a member of the Royal Society and the Bologna Scientific Society. On September 20, 1722 he was given the academic surname Pliny III. elected as a member ( matriculation no. 360 ) of the Leopoldina .
He was the father of Johann Heinrich Linck (the Younger) (1734-1807), who was also a lion pharmacist and naturalist.
After his death, the widow Maria Elisabeth Linck, daughter of the court jeweler Gottlieb Döring, initially ran both the pharmacy and the natural products cabinet until the son came of age. Her portrait was painted in 1754 by the court painter Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski .
In 1840 the collection was sold to Waldenburg (Saxony) in the museum of Prince Otto Victor I. von Schönburg -Waldenburg, which still exists today .
Works
- Johann Heinrich Linck: De stellis marinis liber singularis, Leipzig 1733
- Johann Heinrich Linck: Brevis commentatio de cobalto, in: Phil. Trans. Vol. 34, 1728, pp. 192-203
literature
- Veit Hammer: Linck, Johann Heinrich d. Ä. . 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
- Wilhelm Hess : Linck, Johann Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 661.
- Holm-Dietmar Schwarz: Linck, Johann Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 571 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Linck collection in the Museum Waldenburg
- Member entry of Johann Heinrich Linck at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 9, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Heinrich Linck the Elder. Ä. , Biographiartikel auf Sächsische Biographie , accessed: December 26, 2011
- ↑ Portrait of Maria Elisabeth Linck
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linck, Johann Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pliny III |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist and naturalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1674 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1734 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |