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Authorised form of nameLinck; Johann Heinrich (1674 - 1734)
Other forms of surnameLincke
Dates1674 - 1734
NationalityGerman
Place of birthLeipzig, Germany
Date of birth17 December 1674
Place of deathLeipzig, Germany
Date of death29 October 1734
OccupationPharmacist
Research fieldNatural history
ActivityEducation:
Apprenticed to his father; Copenhagen (1690-1694)
Career:
Travelled to Sweden (1693), Danzig (1696), Holland, Belgium and England; brought back a collection of books on natural history and an impressive cabinet of curiosities; worked in Naumburg (1706-1710), then in his father's pharmacy, taking over from his father (1717)
Memberships:
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (1722); Istituto delle Scienze e Arti di Bologna (1723)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election11/12/1718
ProposerSir Hans Sloane
RelationshipsSon of a pharmacist in Leipzig
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Authority:
AltName from Jocher
Virtual International Authority File67311337
CodeNA4945
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
IM/002753Linck, Johann Heinrichnd
EL/L6/41Letter, from Henry Linckius to James Jurin, dated at Leipzig1726
CLP/9i/70Paper, 'Brevis commentatio de cobalto, auctore viro clarissimo' by Johann Heinrich Linck[1726]
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