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ERDMANN , OTTO• LINNE (1804-1869), See also:

German chemist, son of Karl Gottfried Erdmann (1774-1835), the physician who introduced See also:

VACCINATION (from Lat. vacca, a cow)

vaccination into See also:

Saxony, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

DRESDEN

Dresden on the 1th of See also:

APRIL

April _1804. In 182o he began to attend the medicochirurgical See also:

academy of his native See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place, and in 1822 he entered the university of See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig where in 1827 he became extraordinary See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor, and in 183o See also:

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary professor of See also:

chemistry. This See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office he held until his See also:

DEATH

death, which happened at Leipzig on the 9th of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1869. He was particularly successful as a teacher, and the laboratory established at Leipzig under his direction in 1843 was See also:

long regarded as a See also:

MODEL (0. Fr. modelle, mod. modele; It. modello, pattern, mould; from Lat. modus, measure, standard)

model institution. As an investigator he is best known for his See also:

WORK

work on See also:

nickel and See also:

INDIGO (earlier indico, from Lat. indicum, the Indian sub-stance or dye; the Sans. name was niti, from nila, dark blue, and this through Arab. al-nil, annil, gives " aniline ")

indigo and other dye-stuffs. With R. F. Marchand (1813-185o) he also carried out a number of determinations of atomic weights. In 1828, in See also:

CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with A. F. G. Werther (1815-1869), he founded the See also:

Journal See also:

FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur technische and okonomische Chemie, which became in 1834 the Journal fur praktische Chemie.

He was also the author of Uber das Nickel (1827), Lehrbuch der Chemie (1828), Grundriss der Waarenkunde (1833), and Uber das Studium der Chemie (1861).

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