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Otto Karl Friedrich Schoetensack (; 12 July 1850 in Stendal – 23 December 1912 in Ospedaletti) 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
*"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.
Biography
(in German). * * 1850 births 1912 deaths German paleoanthropologists German anthropologists People from the Province of Saxony People from Stendal {{germany-business-bio-stub
Otto Karl Friedrich Schoetensack (; 12 July 1850 in Stendal – 23 December 1912 in Ospedaletti) 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 Hominidae (), whose members are known as the great apes or hominids (), are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: '' Pongo'' (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); ''Gorilla'' (the east ...
, the oldest human fossil then known, which Schoetensack later described formally as '' Homo heidelbergensis.''
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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Biography
(in German). * * 1850 births 1912 deaths German paleoanthropologists German anthropologists People from the Province of Saxony People from Stendal {{germany-business-bio-stub