Johann Heinrich Linck

Johann Heinrich Linck ( the Elder; * December 17, 1674 in Leipzig, † October 29, 1734 ) was a German chemist and naturalist.

Life

After training in his father's pharmacy Heinrich Linck he undertook extensive travel to many countries in Europe, where he knüpte scientific contacts. In 1710 he took over with his brother Christian Heinrich father's pharmacy Golden Lion in Leipzig and led the mineral and curiosities of the Father ( Linck cal Naturalienkabinett ), a precursor of modern museums, continued. As a researcher, he has worked intensively with starfish. According to him, the starfish genus Linckia was named. Linck was a member of the Royal Society, the Leopoldina and the scientific society Bologna.

He was the father of Johann Heinrich Linck ( the Younger ) ( 1734-1807 ), who was also a lion pharmacist and naturalist.

After his death, his widow Mary Elizabeth Linck, daughter of the court jeweler Gottlieb Doering, initially both the pharmacy and the natural history cabinet until the coming of age of the son on. Your portrait painted in 1754 by the court painter Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski.

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