Otto Schoetensack

Otto Schoetensack (1882)

Otto Schoetensack (German pronunciation: [ˈʃoːtənzak]; July 12, 1850 - December 23, 1912) was a German industrialist and later professor of anthropology. During an archeological dig he directed the worker Daniel Hartmann found the lower jaw of a hominid, which Schoetensack later named the Homo heidelbergensis.

His grave in Heidelberg

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).