Johann Gotthelf Lindner

Johann Gotthelf Lindner (11 September 1729 – 29 March 1776) was a German university teacher and writer at the time of the eighteenth century Enlightenment.

Johann Gotthelf Lindner was the elder brother to Ehregott Friedrich Lindner, also born in Schmolsin, and to Gottlob Immanuel Lindner (1734–1818), born in the city of Königsberg. He was therefore also an uncle to the journalist-doctor Friedrich Ludwig Lindner (1772–1845).

Life Lindner was born in the village of Schmolsin a short distance inland from the north coast of East Pomerania. His father, Georg Friedrich Lindner, was the local protestant minister. He obtained a position as a teacher at the Cathedral School in Riga in 1753, becoming Rector and Inspector at the school in 1755. In 1775 he became a church and school inspector as well as a protestant minister in the Löbenicht parish of Königsberg. Kurzer Inbegriff der Ästhetik, Redekunst und Dichtkunst. 2 volumes, 1771/1772. De eo, quod est poeticum in Sacra Scriptura. Dissertation 1773, 47 pages. Abhandlung von der Sprache überhaupt, und insbesondre eines Landes, nebst einer Sammlung einiger Liefländischen Provinzialwörter und Ausdrücke. In: Beitrag zu Schulhandlungen. Königsberg 1762, pp. 207–256.