Othmar Zeidler

Othmar Zeidler
Born29 August 1850
Vienna, Austria
Died17 June 1911 (aged 60)
Mauer, Vienna, Austria
Occupation(s)Pharmacist, chemist
Known forThe creation of DDT

Othmar Zeidler (29 August 1850 – 17 June 1911)[1][2][Notes 1] was an Austrian chemist credited with the first synthesis of DDT.

He was born on 29 August 1850 in Vienna a son of the Viennese pharmacist Franz Zeidler. Othmar's brother, Franz Zeidler Jr. (1851–1901), also became a chemist and would collaborate with him on several projects.[3] As a doctoral student with Adolf von Baeyer at the University of Strasbourg, then in Germany, Zeidler is credited with the first synthesis of the insecticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT in 1874. Othmar returned to Austria before 1876 and, after working at the I. chemischen Universitätslaboratorium at the University of Vienna,[3] became a pharmacist in the Fünfhaus district of the capital.[4] He died in Mauer near Vienna on 17 June 1911.

  1. ^ Kurt Ryslavy: Materialien zur Geschichte der Apotheken und Apotheker Niederösterreichs. Österreichische Apotheker-Verlagsgesellschaft, Vienna 1991, ISBN 9783852000848, p. 415.
  2. ^ Oesterreichische Chemiker–Zeitung Nr. 13 (1911), p. 169.
  3. ^ a b Obituary of Franz Zeidler Jr in Zeitschrift des allgemeinen Oesterreichischen Apotheker-Vereines, Volume 39, 1901
  4. ^ Zeitschrift des allgemeinen Oesterreichischen Apotheker-Vereines, Volume 27 (1889)


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