Lienhardt Baldner

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Lienhardt Baldner (1666)

Lienhardt Baldner (baptized January 9, 1612 in Strasbourg ; buried February 4, 1694 there ) was a naturalist and painter.

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Lienhardt Baldner was a son of Carl Baldner and Ursula Mock. His father was a fish master and was a member of the Strasbourg Council of Fifteen. Baldner himself married a woman named Salome on January 27, 1636, whose father was the Strasbourg city ropesman Hans Michael Friess. In 1650 he married Anna Ursula, whose father was the goldsmith Albrecht Spengel. On April 13, 1665, he married a woman named Barbara, whose father Benedict Grosse was a professor of the Hebrew language. From each of the marriages there were four children, six sons and six daughters each.

Baldner is considered the "father of Alsatian natural history", who painted animals and landscapes and was an excellent natural scientist and observer. In 1666 he was the first person to recognize the metamorphosis of the lamprey , which, however, received no attention. Corresponding findings were not described again until 1856.

From 1645 to 1654 Baldner worked as a water toller and thus raised the tariffs for ships that sailed on the Rhine . After 1654 he worked as a hagmeister, salt and wood administrator and for several decades as a Strasbourg fish master. From 1646 he recorded observations that were published in 1666 as the "Bird, Fish and Animal Book". Several copies of this have been preserved, including in the Kassel University Library . From today's point of view it is an astonishing “quite natural description and grinding of the water, birds, fish, quadrupeds, insects, and worms, as found in Strasbourg in the waters that I shot myself and the fish caught, everything too in my hand ”.

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SURNAME Baldner, Lienhardt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Naturalist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH baptized January 9, 1612
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH buried February 4, 1694
Place of death Strasbourg