Otto Linné Erdmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Otto Linné Erdmann in a drawing by Gustav Schlick from 1848

Otto Linné Erdmann (born April 11, 1804 in Dresden , † October 9, 1869 in Leipzig ) was a German chemist .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a pharmacist, Erdmann studied medicine in Dresden from 1820 and chemistry in Leipzig from 1823. He received his doctorate in 1824 and qualified as a professor in 1825. In 1826 he became head of a nickel smelter in Hasserode (Harz) and the following year he became an associate professor for technical chemistry at the University of Leipzig . From 1830 he was the first to hold the professorship for technical chemistry at the University of Leipzig and from 1848 was its four-time rector. As the first director of the Chemicum, Erdmann ran a laboratory in the basement of the Pleißenburg . This was later converted into a modern research institute, which from 1843 was housed in the newly built Fridericianum , a neo-classical building built by Leipzig architect Albert Geutebrück , which also housed the rector's family and the collection of the Archaeological Museum. His main research interests were in the field of nickel and indigo . He also dealt with ore, rock and slag analyzes as well as the determination of the atomic weight .

Otto Linné Erdmann (sixth from left) among the board of directors of the Leipzig-Dresdner Eisenbahn-Compagnie (1852)

Otto Linné Erdmann was also a member of many associations in which he acted as one of the leading chemists in Germany and as a university rector. In 1846 he was elected a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences and since 1859 he was an external member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In addition, the Leipzig-Dresden Railway Company appointed him as a consultant to its board of directors. In order to replace the expensive British coal imports required for the operation of the steam locomotives, he developed a process for desulphurising Saxon hard coal coke. Otto Linné Erdmann was also the founding editor of the journal for practical chemistry , the first edition of which appeared in 1834 and the last edition of which was published in 2000. As a representative of Leipzig University, he was a member of the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament in 1839/40 .

Social relevance

In 1827 Erdmann was accepted into the Apollo Masonic Lodge in Leipzig , where he was elected Master of the Chair in 1832 . He was also a member of the board of the Leipziger Lebensversicherung and the Leipziger Gesellschaft Harmonie , in which he was involved in supporting needy Leipzig citizens. He was also a board member of the Leipziger Kunstverein , in which he played a key role in the expansion of the Leipzig Art Museum on Augustusplatz , and on the church council of the Leipzig parish of St. Nicolai. Erdmann was also a member of the Leipzig Schiller Association , in which he was in contact with its founder and director Robert Blum . Together with Robert Blum's wife Eugenie Günther , Erdmann's wife Clara and his daughter Cora headed the German Catholic Women's Aid Association. Erdmann was a knight of the Order of the Zähriger Löwen , holder of the Saxon Albrecht Order and Privy Councilor .

family

Otto Linné Erdmann was born as the son of the German medical doctor and botanist Karl Gottfried Erdmann and his wife Wilhelmine Friedericke Erdmann, née. Born low-spirited. His uncle was the doctor Johann Friedrich Erdmann . In 1828 he married Clara Erdmann, b. Jungnickel with whom he had three sons and a daughter:

  • Karl Ludwig Erdmann (1829–1896), legal scholar and lawyer in Leipzig.
  • Bernhard Arthur Erdmann (1830-1908), medical advisor and Grand Master of the Freemason Lodge in Dresden was married from 1855 to Marianne Heine, a daughter of the Dresden Academy professor and close companion of Gottfried Semper's Gustav Heine (1802-1880).
  • Otto Erdmann (1834–1905), German genre painter in Düsseldorf, was married to the daughter of the Düsseldorf painter Theodor Franken (1811–1876).
  • Cora Erdmann, mother of the German-Swiss painter Clara Grosch (1863–1932), who from 1902 ran a joint studio in Locarno with her husband, the landscape painter Jakob Wagner (1861–1915) from Gelterkinden , Switzerland .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingrid Kästner: History of the pharmacognostic collection and pharmacognostic teaching at the Leipzig University, in: Würzburg medical historical reports, Vol. 18, 1999, p. 223
  2. ^ Lothar Beyer / Horst Remane: Justus von Liebig to Otto Linné Erdmann - commented on letters from 1836 to 1848, Leipzig 2016, p. 222.
  3. ^ Josef Matzerath : Aspects of Saxon State Parliament History - Saxon State Parliament. Presidents and members of parliament from 1833 to 1952. Sächsischer Landtag, Dresden 2001, p. 40
  4. ↑ H. Kolbe: Nekrolog über Otto Linné Erdmann, in: Journal for practical chemistry, ed. v. Otto Linné Erdmann u. Gustav Werther, Vol. 108, Leipzig 1869, p. 456.
  5. ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 6, ed. vd Historical Commission at the King. Academy of Sciences, Leipzig 1877, p. 188
  6. ↑ Lothar Beyer / Horst Remane: Justus von Liebig to Otto Linné Erdmann - commented on letters from 1836 to 1848, Leipzig 2016, p. 241
  7. ↑ Sylvia Paletschek: Women and Dissent. Women in German Catholicism and in the free communities 1841–1852, Göttingen 1990, p. 336.
  8. ↑ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 6, ed. vd Historical Commission at the King. Academy of Sciences, Leipzig 1877, p. 188
  9. ^ Otto Linné Erdmann in: Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig. Published by the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, Historical Seminar of the University of Leipzig. Leipzig 2016.
  10. ↑ At home. Deutsches Familienblatt, July 23, 1870. Volume 6, No. 43. Leipzig 1870, p. 688.
  11. ↑ Brothers shake hands , Michael Lang-Alsvik, Link: https://de.scribd.com/doc/215026737/Bruder-reich-die-Hand-zum-Bunde
  12. ↑ Leipziger Zeitung, No. 285, December 2, 1855.
  13. ↑ Heinz Quitzsch: Gottfried Semper - Practical Aesthetics and Political Struggle, Braunschweig 1962, p. 19.
  14. ^ Jakob Wagner , in the personal dictionary of the canton of Basel-Landschaft
personal data
SURNAME Erdmann, Otto Linné
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1869
Place of death Leipzig