Johann Gottlieb Lindner (17 March 1726 – 18 December 1811) was a German pedagogue, historian and author.
[2] Johann Gottlieb Lindner was born in Bärenstein,[3] a small town in Saxony, right on the frontier with Bohemia.
[1] His first recorded employment was as a teacher at the Kreuzschule (literally School of the Cross) in Dresden.
[4] 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.