Samuel Linde

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Samuel Linde

Samuel Gottlieb Linde (polonised Samuel Bogumił Linde; 11 or 24 April 1771, in

Polish Enlightenment
.

Life

Bust of Linde in the family tomb at the Protestant cemetery in Warsaw
Linde monument, Toruń

Samuel Gottlieb Linde was born in Toruń,

Constitution of May 3, 1791. During the Kościuszko Uprising (1794) he was in Warsaw and supported Hugo Kołłątaj
.

In 1795–1803 he was a librarian to Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński and began gathering material for his future dictionary for Polish and other Slavic grammar and expressions by traveling for six years through Galicia and to Moldova. He became director at the newly established Königlich-Preußisches Lyzäum in Warsaw, the later Warsaw Lyceum (1804–31). Linde hired Frédéric Chopin's father, Nicolas Chopin, as a teacher of French language. The composer himself studied at the Lyceum in 1823–26.

Linde was a

Evangelical Cemetery of the Augsburg Confession in Warsaw. Linde married Ludwika Nussbaum, originally from Switzerland. Their daughter Ludwika Emilia Izabela married Leopold Otto
, a Lutheran pastor.

Works

Linde's major work was

Lemberg
(Polish Lwów, now Lviv) in 1854–1861. Both editions are now present in several digital libraries.

See also

  • List of Poles

References

External links