Samuel Gottlieb Linde was born in Toruń, Crown of Poland, which 22 years later, after his birth, as a result of the Second Partition of Poland, became a city under the rule of the King of Prussia (Prussian Poland), to Jan Jacobsen Linde, a master locksmith and member of the city council who had immigrated from Sweden, and Anna Barbara, née Langenhann.
Samuel Gottlieb Linde was born in Toruń, which 22 years later became part of the Kingdom of Prussia due to the Second Partition of Poland. He came from a family that included his father Jan Jacobsen Linde, a master craftsman and local authority who had migrated from Sweden, and his mother Anna Barbara, née Langenhann.