Samuel Linde

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samuel Linde

Samuel Gottlieb Linde (also Samuel Bogumił Linde , a later Polish translation) (born April 20, 1771 in Thorn , † August 8, 1847 in Warsaw ) was a pedagogue , linguist and librarian who was best known for his contributions to the lexicography of Polish .

Life

Linde was the son of Johann Jakobsen Lindt, who immigrated from Kulla in the Swedish province of Dalekarlien around 1749 and became a master locksmith and city councilor in Thorn, and the stonemason daughter Anna Barbara Langenhan from Coburg. An older brother was Johann Wilhelm Linde (1760-1840), pastor and school inspector in Danzig.

Linde studied law , philology and theology at the University of Leipzig . After the previous lecturer's death, Linde taught Polish language and literature there, although he first had to train himself in the language. Several Poles who lived in Leipzig and Dresden helped him with this. Among other things, scientific activities in Warsaw and Vienna followed .

Samuel Gottlieb Linde worked as a Countess Ossolinskian librarian in the Ossolinskische Bibliothek . He was then appointed as rector of the Royal Prussian Lyceum in Warsaw and librarian in Warsaw. In 1807, despite the Napoleonic war, Linde published the dictionary on which he had worked for many years with several Poles. The Polish Dictionary, Polish-German, German-Polish, the Słownik języka polskiego , the first scientific dictionary of the Polish language, is considered to be his main work. For six years he traveled through Galicia to the Moldau and collected material and books for the very detailed work in which Polish and other Slavic grammar, idioms and technical expressions are dealt with.

At the time of the Electors of Saxony as kings of Poland ( Saxony-Poland , since 1697), German architects and builders such as Joachim Daniel von Jauch and Ephraim Schröger came to Warsaw with their families. Other Germans from West Prussia also came to Warsaw, which was part of New East Prussia from 1795 to 1807 .

Linde herself was a Protestant and helped set up a Protestant church for the congregation of 8,000 Germans in Warsaw. This was also approved by the Russian tsars when they ruled Warsaw after the Napoleonic Wars . Linde is buried in the Evangelical Cemetery of the German Congregation of Augsburg Confession in Warsaw.

Linde was a member of academies of science and scientific societies in Berlin, Königsberg, Paris, Vilnius, St. Petersburg, Krakow, and Kazan.

In his honor, the twin cities Göttingen and Thorn donated the Samuel Bogumil Linde Prize .

family

Linde was married twice:

  • Ludwika Bürger (1786–1823), daughter of a Warsaw trader.
  • Ludwika Aleksandra Nussbaum (* 1800; † September 5, 1836), a Swiss native and friend of Frédéric Chopin , to whom he dedicated his Rondeau in C minor, Op. 1, written in 1825 .

Among the children of the family, Aleksandra Józefa Tekla Linde (1831-1896) should be emphasized, who later became the wife of Maurycy Karasowski (1823-1892), the author of the first Chopin monograph (1862). The daughter Emilie Isabella Marie Linde († 1857) married the theologian Leopold Otto in 1850 .

Publications

  • Słownik języka polskiego
  • De solatiis adversus mortis horrores in Platone et Novo Testamento obuiis commentatio . Leipzig: Klaubarth, 1792 (dissertation)
  • Vincent Kadlubek, a historical-critical contribution , Joseph Maximilian Ossolinski and Samuel Gottlieb Linde, Warsaw 1822
Translations from the Polish language

literature

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Linde, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Linde, Samuel Gottlieb (full name); Linde, Samuel Bogumił (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish linguist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Thorn
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1847
Place of death Warsaw