Otto Schoetensack
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Otto Schoetensack (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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] External link
- Biography (in German).
