Otto Tunmann Explained

Otto Tunmann (13 August 1867, Posen – 11 September 1919, Innsbruck) was a German pharmacologist and phytochemist.

He studied pharmacy at the Universities of Leipzig and Erlangen, obtaining his doctorate in 1900 from the University of Bern. Afterwards, he worked as a pharmacist in Schöneck, Vogtland. From 1905 he was an assistant to Alexander Tschirch at Bern,^[1] where he conducted studies in the fields of phytomicrochemistry, microchemical toxicology and forensic chemistry.^[2] In May 1919, Tunmann was appointed professor of pharmacognosy at the University of Vienna. He died in Innsbruck, Austria a few months later.^[3]

In 1915 Tunmann isolated from the leaves of hyssop, a substance he referred to as "hyssopin".^[4] ^[5]

Selected publications

Über die Sekretdrüsen, 1900 - On glandular secretions (dissertation).
Mikroskopisch-pharmakognostische Beiträge zur Kenntnis einiger neuerer Arzneidrogen, 1908 - Microscopic-pharmacognostic contributions to the knowledge of some recent medicinal drugs.
Zur Mikrochemie des Inulins, 1910 - On the microchemistry of inulins.
Der Drogenhandel Hamburgs, 1910 Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf
Beiträge zur angewandten Pflanzenmikrochemie - Volumes 1-2, 1911 - Contributions to applied plant microchemistry.
Pflanzenmikrochemie: ein Hilfsbuch beim mikrochemischen Studium pflanzlicher Objekte 1913 - Botanical microchemistry: a manual for micro-chemical studies of plants.^[6] Digital edition by the University and State Library Düsseldorf