François Linke (1855–1946) was a leading Parisian ébéniste of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Linke was born on 17 June 1855 in the small Bohemian village of Deutsch Pankraz, now known as Jítrava in the Czech Republic. Records show that Linke served an apprenticeship with a master cabinetmaker, named Neumann, which he completed in 1877. Linke’s work book or Arbeits-Buch records that he was in Vienna from July 1872 to October 1873 at the time of the International Exhibition held there in 1873.
