Otto Schoetensack

Otto Schoetensack (1882)

Otto Schoetensack (German: [ˈʃoːtənzak]; July 12, 1850 in Stendal – December 23, 1912 in Ospidaletto) was a German industrialist and later professor of anthropology, born of financial means. During an archeological dig, he oversaw the worker Daniel Hartmann who found the lower jaw of a hominid, the oldest human fossil then known, which Schoetensack later described formally as Homo heidelbergensis.

Publications

Schoetensack's grave in Heidelberg

"Der Unterkiefer des Homo heidelbergensis aus den Sanden von Mauer bei Heidelberg" (The lower jaw of the Homo heidelbergensis out of the sands of Mauer near Heidelberg). 1908. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.

External links

Biography (in German).
Works by Otto Schoetensack at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about Otto Schoetensack at Internet Archive

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 79389524 LCCN: n87829343 ISNI: 0000 0000 8397 1531 GND: 116889977 SUDOC: 132233444

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