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About Otto Tunmann
- 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, where he conducted studies in the fields of phytomicrochemistry, microchemical toxicology and forensic chemistry.
- In May 1919, Tunmann was appointed professor of pharmacognosy at the University of Vienna.
- He died in Innsbruck, Austria a few months later.In 1915 Tunmann isolated from the leaves of hyssop, a substance he referred to as "hyssopin".
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