Justus Johannes Heindrich Ribock (occasionally: Riebock, Riboc) (12 September 1743 – 1785) was a German
physician
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, amateur
flute
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player and designer born in
Egestorf
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,
Germany
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.
Son of
Pastor
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Johann Heidrich Ribock (1696–1753),
he studied in the
University of Helmstedt
The University of Helmstedt (german: Universität Helmstedt; official Latin name: ''Academia Julia'', "Julius University"), was a university in Helmstedt in the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel that existed from 1576 until 1810.
History
Founded ...
between 1760 and 1762,
and then in
Rinteln and
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Places Germany
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** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt
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, finally graduating as a physician in
Göttingen
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in 1763.
He died in
Hanover
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, Lower Saxony, in 1785.
Ribock was a friend and later opponent to
Johann George Tromlitz
Johann George Tromlitz (November 8, 1725 – February 4, 1805), born at Reinsdorf, near Artern, Germany, was a flautist
The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, ...
's ideas on the flute, with whom he had taken lessons between 1777 and 1783. He wrote the article "Über Musik, an Flötenliebhaber insonderheit" (''Magazin der Musik'' 1, Hamburg, 1783) about improvements as for the design of the instrument and a short treatise entitled ''Bemerkungen uber die Flöte, und Versuch einer kursen Anleitung zur bessern Einrichtung und Behandlung derselben - Eine Inhaltsübersicht'' (Stendal, 1782).
References
External links
Bemerkungen über die Flöteat the
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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Website
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1743 births
1785 deaths
18th-century German physicians
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