# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/otto-schoetensack
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:08:19.438Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/otto-schoetensack"
name: "Otto Schoetensack"
slug: "otto-schoetensack"
description: "Otto Karl Friedrich Schoetensack 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."
tagline: "German paleoanthropologist (1850–1912)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Otto_Schoetensack_1882.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1850-07-12"
deathDate: "1912-12-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.88
  momentum:             14.03225806451613
  historical:           6.812096
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "奧托·舒滕薩克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اوتو ستشويتينساك"
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    title: "Otto Schoetensack"
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    title: "Otto Schoetensack"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Schoetensack"
    title: "Otto Schoetensack"
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    title: "Otto Schoetensack"
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    title: "Օտտո Շյոտենզակ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump