ERDMANN, DAVID (1821-1905), German Protestant theologian, was born on July 20, 1821, at Gustebiese, and was educated at Berlin. He was appointed professor of theology at Konigsberg in 1856, and eight years later general-superintendent of Silesia at Breslau, becoming superior consistorial counsellor in 1889. Erdmann died at Dresden on March 11, 1905.
His chief works are: Lieben and Leiden der ersten Christen (1854) ; Die Reformation and ihre Martyrer in Italien (1855), and Luther and die Hohenzollern (2nd ed., 1884) . See also Eberlein, Aus einem reichen Leben: Blotter der Erinnerung an D. Erdmann (1907).