David Erdmann (28 July 1821 - 11 March 1905) was a German evangelical theologian and church historian.[1] [2]
Christian Friedrich David Erdmann was born at Güstebiese (as it was then called), a village on the eastern bank of the Oder river a short distance inland and upstream from Stettin. He studied Theology in Berlin, and in 1845 became a member of the Berlin Wingolf (fraternity organisation).[3] He received a "Privatdozent" (teaching certificate) in 1853, and in 1856 became a full professor for Theology and Church History at the University of Königsberg, also serving as a pastor.
Between 1864 and 1900 he served as General Superintendent of the Ecclesiastical College for the Prussian Union of churches in Silesia.[1] For this job he was based in Breslau (as Wrocław was then known). In 1865 he was also appointed a full honorary professor at the university there.[1] Between 1882 and 1899 Erdmann was chair of the Chairman of the History Association of the Evangelical Church in Silesia.[4] He retired in 1900.