Johann Georg Dominicus von Linprun
Johann Georg Dominicus of Linprun ( born January 10, 1714 Viechtach, † June 14, 1787 in Munich) was chur princely baierischer coin and Bergrat and a co-founder of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. His name is preserved in the spellings Linbrunn, Limbrunn, Limbrun, Lindprun or Linprunn. The high school in his hometown of Viechtach wears his honor the name Dominicus - of - Linprun High School.
Origin
Linprun was born in 1714 the son of a non- noble land and care court clerk. He studied law and philosophy in Prague, Salzburg and Ingolstadt and at the same time acquired extensive knowledge in the field of mineralogy and mining. After graduation, he worked as a maintenance office clerk, but was called to Munich in 1750 as coin and Bergrat and then entrusted with repeated orders in connection with the coinage.
Work
In 1757 he represented Bavaria in Vienna during the negotiations on the so-called Münzkonventionsfuß. In these negotiations, the pound was fixed to 500 grams as the unit for the coin weight between the countries of the German Customs Union ( including Bavaria ) and Austria and Liechtenstein. His negotiating skills was so outstanding that made him Emperor Francis I. for his achievements in the realm of nobility.
Special merits he also earned in Munich together with the main initiator of Johann Georg Lori by his commitment to a chur Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Their precursors, the Bavarian learned society, was on 12 October 1758 in the castle lane 5 - was founded - the Munich home of Linbrunns. Even in the first year of the Academy (1759 ) has been appointed as the first Director of Linprun the Philosophical class of the Academy, whose members initially met again at his home. Lorenz von Westenrieder wrote in 1804 in his History of baierischen Academy of Sciences, " the lords of Linbrunn and Georg von Lori rose Munich the foundation for a Academy of Sciences, which should act on all of Germany ." Linprun supported Count Sigmund von Haimhausen in directing the Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory as manager and led them in a time of great financial difficulties and falling demand from 1767 to 1772.
1763 came from Linprun in the possession of the Lehensguts Laufzorn, comparable in terms of its architectural design to the Schleißheim Castle hunting lodge. He became aware of an extremely rectilinear street in the vicinity Through this possession. He suspected that this road an ancient cross-regional connection was apparently whose endpoints it accounted for through the study of maps in Augsburg and Salzburg. From Linprun also brought the known fact that Roman coins and stone inscriptions had been found near his Lehensguts repeated the road in conjunction: He was thus the first to the first section of the old Roman road identified in 1763 in the field, their further course with a suspected bridge over the Isar described at George stone own research and in 1764 published this discovery.