Otto Linné Erdmann (11 April 1804 – 9 October 1869) was a German chemist. He was the son of

Karl Gottfried Erdmann Karl Gottfried Erdmann (31 March 1774 – 13 January 1835) was a German physician and botanist. He was the father of chemist Otto Linné Erdmann (1804–1869). Erdmann was born in Wittenberg. In 1798 he received his medical doctorate from the ...

, the physician who introduced vaccination into Saxony. 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'', which became in 1834 the '' Journal für praktische Chemie''. From 1853 A. F. G. Werther (1815–1869) was an editor of the journal. 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).

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* * * 1804 births 1869 deaths 19th-century German chemists Scientists from the Kingdom of Saxony Members of the First Chamber of the Diet of the Kingdom of Saxony Scientists from Dresden Academic staff of Leipzig University {{Germany-chemist-stub