Otto Schoetensack
German industrialist and professor of anthropology
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Otto_Schoetensack_1882.jpg/170px-Otto_Schoetensack_1882.jpg)
Otto Karl Friedrich Schoetensack (German: [ˈʃoːtənzak]; 12 July 1850 in Stendal – 23 December 1912 in Ospedaletti) was a German industrialist and later professor of anthropology, having retired from the chemical firm which he had founded. During a 1908 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
- "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 the Internet Archive
- v
- t
- e