David Erdmann

David Erdmann (28 July 1821 - 11 March 1905) was a German evangelical theologian and church historian.

Life 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). 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. He retired in 1900.

Published output (not necessarily a complete list)

Luther und die Hohenzollern, Breslau 1883, 2. Aufl. 1884 Luther und seine Beziehungen zu Schlesien, insbesondere zu Breslau, Halle 1887