Otto Karl Friedrich Schoetensack (; 12 July 1850 in

Stendal The Hanseatic City of Stendal () is a town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is the capital of the Stendal District and the unofficial capital of the Altmark region. Geography Situated west of the Elbe valley, the Stendal town centre is located s ...

– 23 December 1912 in

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) was a German industrialist and later professor of

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of be ...

, 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 ''

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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.

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(in German). * * 1850 births 1912 deaths German paleoanthropologists German anthropologists People from the Province of Saxony People from Stendal {{germany-business-bio-stub