In early 1846, Gottlieb was appointed professor for general and technical chemistry to that newly created chair.

[2] His Guide to Qualitative Chemical Analysis (Leitfaden der qualitativen Analyse (1869)) provided insights to his didactic experiences and counts among some rare documents of university teaching and laboratory exercises of its time.

[8] Gottlieb thus followed and shared Justus von Liebig’s approaches in chemistry education which were introduced to universities and technical colleges in the Austrian Empire in the early 1840s.

[8] It was Johann Gottlieb to convince Leopold von Pebal, his later assistant, to pursue a career in chemistry.

[3][4] Gottlieb was also the most prolific Austrian textbook writer of his time and his Vollständiges Taschenbuch der Chemischen Technologie (1852) was the first of its kind in the German speaking region.