Otto Tunmann

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Otto Tunmann (August 13, 1867 – September 11, 1919) was a German pharmacologist and phytochemist. He studied pharmacy at the Universities of Leipzig and Erlangen and earned his doctorate in 1900 from the University of Bern. He then worked as a pharmacist in Schöneck, Vogtland. In 1905 he became an assistant to Alexander Tschirch in Bern, where he researched plant chemistry, toxicology, and forensic chemistry. In May 1919 he was named professor of pharmacognosy at the University of Vienna, but he died a few months later in Innsbruck. In 1915 he isolated a compound from hyssop leaves, which he called hyssopin.