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Kázmér, M. ; Papp, G.: Minerals from the Carpathians in an eighteenth-century British collection

KÖLESÉRI WOODWARD (1729) mentioned him as M. Sam. Robeseri (An Addition to the Catalogue of the Foreign Native Fossils, p. 14). The name was mis-spelled by WOODWARD; the correct form is Sámuel Köleséri. KÖLESÉRI, SÁMUEL (18 November 1663, Szendrő, Hungary - 24 December 1732, Hermannstadt, Transylvania) studied theology, philosophy, and medicine in Leyden and Franeker, Holland. He was chief physician of Transylvania, and supervisor of the mines there. He published widely on philosophy, theology, medicine, history, law, and philology. His treatise on the gold mining of Transylvania: Auraria RomanoDacica (1717) is of lasting value. KÖLESÉRI assembled a library of four thousand volumes in all the fields of his interest (BERTÓK 1955). He was elected the first Hungarian member of the Royal Society in 1729 (CsÍKY 1992). He corresponded with many persons of significance, among others with Sir HANS SLOANE (GÖMÖRI 1989) and JOHANN JAKOB SCHEUCHZER (VÖRÖS 1983; JAKÓ in press). SCHEUCHZER's Herbarium Diluvianum contains a dedication to KÖLESÉRI (KÁZMÉR 1997). WOODWARD received only two specimens directly from KÖLESÉRI, although the three Hungarian specimens given to him by CHISHULL and the three by SCHEUCHZER had been possibly the donations of KÖLESÉRI to those collectors. LEOPOLD LEOPOLD, JOHANN FRIEDRICH (2 February 1676, Lübeck, Germany - 4 May 1711, Lübeck, Germany). German physician in Lübeck. He took a six-year-long travel to Italy, England, France and the Netherlands before graduating in Zürich in 1700. Having returned to Lübeck, he collected a nice rarity chamber. He had a wide correspondence with contemporary scholars (JÖCHER 1750), among them with WOODWARD, who inspired his trip in 1706/7 to Denmark and Sweden including visits to the Swedish mines (PRICE 1989). An account of this journey in the form of letters to WOODWARD (Relatio epistolica de itinere suo suecico ami. 1707facto, ad Doct. loan. Woodward) was published posthumously in London by WOODWARD in 1720. The Woodwardian Collection holds 13 specimens from Hungary, donated by LEOPOLD. LINCK LINCK, HEINRICH (? - 1717), German pharmacist in Leipzig, founded the family's famous natural history collection (WILSON 1994). His son, JOHANN HEINRICH (17 December 1674, Leipzig, Saxonia - 29 October 1736, Leipzig, Saxonia) studied pharmacy in Leipzig and Copenhagen. Following travels to Holland and England he returned to Leipzig, and opened a chemist's shop. He became famous for his "Naturaliencabinet" and for his library in the sciences. The catalogue of his collections was published after his death as Index musei Linckiani (1783-1787) by his son of the same name. His major zoological work titled De stellis marinis (1733) was the authoritative treatise of sea-stars for more than a century. JOHANN HEINRICH LlNCK was member of several academies (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie). He dedicated his book Epistola de sceleto Crocodili in Lapide (Lipsiae, 1718) to WOODWARD. The Woodwardian Collection holds a single Hungarian specimen from the Linck collection.