Otto Schoetensack
German paleoanthropologist (1850-1912) · Academics · Died at 62
Otto Karl Friedrich Schoetensack was a German industrialist and later professor of anthropology, having retired from the chemical firm which he had founded.
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About this person
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.
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1850 to 1912 · aged 62
