 Samuel Linde was appointed director of the Warsaw Lyceum.The Evangelical-Augsburg Lutheran from Thorn in Royal Prussia had studied theology and philology at the University of Leipzig and had taught the Polish language there.From 1795 he had been librarian to Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński, and had gathered material for his future "Słownik języka polskiego" (Dictionary of the Polish Language), a six-volume monolingual dictionary which he published in Warsaw in 1807–14.