Johann Gottlieb Lindner

Johann Gottlieb Lindner (17 March 1726 – 18 December 1811) was a German pedagogue, historian and author. In 1894 he became the director of the Lyceum of Arnstadt and Schwarzburg.

Life Johann Gottlieb Lindner was born in Bärenstein, a small town in Saxony, right on the frontier with Bohemia. The area was known for its ore mines, and Lindner's father was a miner.

The writer Lindner wrote extensively on Philology, History, Topography and Numismatics. One of his students, Johann Christian von Hellbach, later became a publisher and produced a compilation of his writings. It was also von Hellbach who edited and published Lindner's autobiography.

Published output (not a complete list) Magister Johann Gottlieb Lindners Directors der Stadt- und Landschule zu Arnstadt, auch Beysitzers des fürstlich schwarzburg-sondershäusischen Consistorii in Schulsachen daselbst kurze Selbstbiographie, mit Anmerkungen, einem Nachtrage und einigen Beylagen von (with annotations, an epilogue and some contributions from) Johann Christian von Hellbach (Ed.), Arnstadt 1812 Analectorum Paulino-Cellensium, 21 parts, 1789–1804 Nachlese zur schwarzburgischen Geschichte, 11 parts, 1783–1792 Lehrreicher Zeitvertreib in Ovidianischen Verwandlungen, Leipzig 1764 Etwas über Mythen, Arnstadt 1796 Grundlegung zur deutschen Sprachlehre für Anfänger, Arnstadt 1772