Samuel Linde
Samuel Gottlieb Linde (polonised Samuel Bogumił Linde; 11 or 24 April 1771, in
Life
Samuel Gottlieb Linde was born in Toruń,
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
Works
Linde's major work was
See also
- List of Poles
References
- ^ Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German)
- ISBN 978-83-01-06443-3.
- .