Otto Linné Erdmann

Otto Linné Erdmann (11 April 1804 – 9 October 1869) was a German chemist. He was the son of Karl Gottfried Erdmann, the physician who introduced vaccination into Saxony.

Otto Linné Erdmann
Otto Linné Erdmann
Born(1804-04-11)11 April 1804
Dresden, Germany
Died9 October 1869(1869-10-09) (aged 65)
Leipzig, Germany
NationalityGerman

He was born in Dresden on 11 April 1804. In 1820 he began to attend the medico-chirurgical academy of his native place, and in 1822 he entered the University of Leipzig, where in 1827 he became an associate professor, and in 1830 a full professor of chemistry. This office he held until his death, which happened at Leipzig on 9 October 1869.

He was particularly successful as a teacher, and the laboratory established at Leipzig under his direction in 1843 was long regarded as a model institution. As an investigator he is best known for his work on nickel and indigo and other dye-stuffs. With R. F. Marchand (1813–1850) he also carried out a number of determinations of atomic weights.

In 1828 he founded the Journal für technische und ökonomische Chemie,[1] which became in 1834 the Journal für praktische Chemie.[2] From 1853 A. F. G. Werther (1815–1869) was an editor of the journal.[3] Erdmann was also the author of Über das Nickel (1827), Lehrbuch der Chemie (1828), Grundriss der Waarenkunde (1833), and Über das Studium der Chemie (1861).[4]

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  1. Journal für technische und ökonomische Chemie at HathiTrust Digital Library
  2. Journal für praktische Chemie de.Wikisource.org
  3. Biographisch-litterarisches handwörterbuch der wissenschaftlich bedeutenden ... edited by Karl Schaedler
  4. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Erdmann, Otto Linné". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

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