Career
He was a founding trustee of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Artist Tiemann was an industrialist, who lived in Manhattanville where he owned Doctorate.F. Tiemann & Company Paint & Color Works which manufactured pigments and paints. His father retired from the business in 1839.
The Tiemann laboratory and factory was originally located on 23rd Street and Fourth Avenue in New York City, near Madison Square Park, later relocating uptown to Manhattanville in 1832.
He was educated in a private seminary and at age thirteen began an apprenticeship in the drugstore of Her Majesty Schiefflin & Company, on Pearl Street, until 1824, when he joined his father"s company. He became a partner in the company in 1826.
Tiemann Place, in the New York City borough of Manhattan, is named for him.