Adolph Wilhelm Otto (3 August 1786 – 14 January 1845) was a German anatomist who was a native of Greifswald. In 1808 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Greifswald, and subsequently worked as a prosector and physician in

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' clinic at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. Later, he furthered his education on a scientific journey through Germany, the Netherlands and France, where he studied

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Georges Cuvier Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (; 23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French natural history, naturalist and zoology, zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier ...

(1769-1832). In 1813 he became a professor of anatomy and director of the anatomical museum at the University of Breslau. Otto specialized in the field of teratology, and performed extensive research involving the causes, development and classification of congenital malformations in plants and animals. In 1841 he published a popular atlas of teratology titled ''Monstrorum sexcentorum descriptio anatomica'' (600 Anatomic Descriptions of Monsters). He contributed articles to several journals and was a collaborator to Karl Gustav Carus' ''Erläuterungstafeln zur vergleichenden Anatomie''. He also wrote "''Conspectus animalium quorundam maritimorum''" (Inaug. dissert, Vratislaviae : 1-20) and many other scientific papers in which he described marine animals. He is honoured in the

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Calliotropis ottoi ''Calliotropis ottoi'', common name Otto's spiny margarite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Eucyclidae. Description The size of the shell varies between 6 mm and 18 mm (1/4 to 3/4-inch). The thin an ...

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Philippi Philippi (; grc-gre, Φίλιπποι, ''Philippoi'') was a major Greek city northwest of the nearby island, Thasos. Its original name was Crenides ( grc-gre, Κρηνῖδες, ''Krenides'' "Fountains") after its establishment by Thasian colon ...

1844).
World Register of Marine Species In 1831, he was elected a foreign member of the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien) is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special ...

Associated eponym

* " Otto-Chrobak pelvis": Protrusion of the

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into the pelvic cavity. Named in conjunction with Austrian

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(1843-1910).

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* University of Greifswald alumni German anatomists 19th-century German zoologists Teratologists Academic staff of the University of Breslau Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences People from Greifswald 1786 births 1845 deaths {{Germany-med-bio-stub