[1] Lindemann attended the gymnasium at Essen, studied theology in Bonn from 1848 to 1851, and was ordained in Cologne, 2 September 1852.
He was rector of the municipal high school of Heinsberg from 1853 to 1860, then parish-priest at Rheinbreitbach, and later at Venrath from 1863 to 1866, when he became pastor of Niederkrüchten, and remained so till his death.
The University of Würzburg recognized his literary achievements by conferring on him, in 1872, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
Lindemann's principal literary work is the Geschichte der Deutschen Literatur, which first appeared in 1866 (eighth edition, Freiburg, 1905).
The author modeled it on August Friedrich Christian Vilmar's widely read Geschichte der deutschen Nationalliteratur ("History of German National Literature").