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 | |
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 Otto Linné Erdmann | |
| Born | 11 April 1804 Dresden, Germany |
| Died | 9 October 1869 (aged 65) Leipzig, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
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]
Notes edit
- ^ Journal für technische und ökonomische Chemie at HathiTrust Digital Library
- ^ Journal für praktische Chemie de.Wikisource.org
- ^ Biographisch-litterarisches handwörterbuch der wissenschaftlich bedeutenden ... edited by Karl Schaedler
- ^ 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.
References edit
- "Otto Linné Erdmann: Zum 200. Geburtstag am 11. April 2004". University of Leipzig. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - Hermann Kolbe (1870). "Nekrolog: Otto Linné Erdmann". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft. 3 (1): 374–381. doi:10.1002/cber.187000301225.
- Ronge, Grete (1959), "Otto Linné Erdmann", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 4, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 572–573
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