Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist and academic (died 1912)

Otto Schoetensack

German industrialist and professor of anthropology

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…