Otto Schoetensack
Deceased Person
1850 – 1912
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Who was Otto Schoetensack?
Otto Schoetensack was a German industrialist and later professor of anthropology, born of financial means. During an 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.
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- Born
- Jul 12, 1850
Stendal - Nationality
- Germany
- Lived in
- Stendal
- Died
- Dec 23, 1912
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on July 23, 2013
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