Johann Gottlieb Lindner

Johann Gottlieb Lindner
Born(1726-03-17)17 March 1726
Bärenstein, Saxony
Died18 December 1811(1811-12-18) (aged 85)
Arnstadt, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Occupation(s)pedagogue,
historian,
writer

Johann Gottlieb Lindner (17 March 1726 – 18 December 1811) was a German pedagogue, historian and author.[1] In 1894 he became the director of the Lyceum of Arnstadt and Schwarzburg.[2]

Life

Johann Gottlieb Lindner was born in Bärenstein,[3] a small town in Saxony, right on the frontier with Bohemia. The area was known for its ore mines, and Lindner's father was a miner.[1] His first recorded employment was as a teacher at the Kreuzschule (literally School of the Cross) in Dresden. During this period he supplemented his meagre earnings by working as a musical performer and was thereby able to work his way up the social scale.[1]

He commenced a study course at Leipzig University in 1748, becoming a Master (Magister) of Philology. In 1751, on the recommendation of the local Superintendent Johann Christian Ernesti [de], Lindner was appointed co-rector at Langensalza, where he would have been working with Ernesti.[1] In 1761 he became a member of the Erfurt Academy of Public Sciences [de]. In 1765 he was appointed deputy to the Rector of the regionally important Grammar school (Gymnasium) in Arnstadt, where he himself took over as Rector[3] in 1794.[1] Subsequently, he became the Advisor for School Matters to the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.[4]

The writer

Lindner wrote extensively on Philology, History, Topography and Numismatics. One of his students, Johann Christian von Hellbach, later became a publisher and produced a compilation of his writings.[5] It was also von Hellbach who edited and published Lindner's autobiography.

Published output (not a complete list)

  • Magister Johann Gottlieb Lindners Directors der Stadt- und Landschule zu Arnstadt, auch Beysitzers des fürstlich schwarzburg-sondershäusischen Consistorii in Schulsachen daselbst kurze Selbstbiographie, mit Anmerkungen, einem Nachtrage und einigen Beylagen von (with annotations, an epilogue and some contributions from) Johann Christian von Hellbach (Ed.), Arnstadt 1812
  • Analectorum Paulino-Cellensium, 21 parts, 1789–1804
  • Nachlese zur schwarzburgischen Geschichte, 11 parts, 1783–1792
  • Lehrreicher Zeitvertreib in Ovidianischen Verwandlungen, Leipzig 1764
  • Etwas über Mythen, Arnstadt 1796
  • Grundlegung zur deutschen Sprachlehre für Anfänger, Arnstadt 1772

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Bernhard Anemüller (1883). "Lindner, Joh. Gottlieb". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften / digital reproduction in Wikisource. pp. 705–706.
  2. ^ "Lindner, Johann Gottlieb, 1726–1811". Library of Congress Authorities. Archived from the original on 15 December 2019.
  3. ^ a b Carl Joseph Bouginé (1791). Handbuch der allgemeinen Litteraturgeschichte nach Heumanns Grundriß. Vol. 4. Orell, Gessner, Füssli & Co, Zurich. p. 422.
  4. ^ Georg Christoph Hamberger; Johann Georg Meusel (1797). Das gelehrte Teutschland. Vol. 4. . Meyersche Hof-Buchhandlung, Lemgo. pp. 467–469.
  5. ^ Johann Gottlieb Lindner; Johann Christian von Hellbach (compiler). eigentliche Bücher und kleine Piecen und in Gelegenheitsschriften über Gegenstände der schwarzburgischen Geschichte und andere gelehrte Materien.