Anton Schrötter von Kristelli (26 November 1802 – 15 April 1875) was an Austrian chemist and mineralogist born in Olomouc, Moravia.

He initially studied medicine in Vienna at the request of his father,[1] but switched to the natural sciences under the influence of Friedrich Mohs (1773–1839).

[2] As a chemist he conducted research involving reactions of metals with ammonia at higher temperatures, and performed investigations of substances such as amber, idrialite, ozokerite, asphalt and dopplerite.

[1] In 1845 he discovered a process for preparing red phosphorus, a development which led to the invention of the safety match.

[3] With Ettingshausen, Baumgartner and Wilhelm von Haidinger (1795–1871), he was a founding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, serving as its secretary from 1851 until his death.