Justus Ribock

Background

Son of Pastor Johann Heidrich Ribock (1696–1753), he studied in the University of Helmstedt between 1760 and 1762, and then in Rinteln and Halle, finally graduating as a physician in Göttingen in 1763.

Career

He died in Hanover, Lower Saxony, in 1785. He wrote the article Über Musik, an Flötenliebhaber insonderheit (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).

Connections

opponent:

Johann George Tromlitz