Carl Adolf Otth

Carl Adolf (Adolphe) Otth (April 2 1803, Bern - May 16 1839) was a Swiss physician and naturalist who was a native of Bern.

In 1822 he studied medicine in Bern, and afterwards attended classes on natural history in Geneva, where he had as instructors- Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841) and Nicolas Charles Seringe (1776-1858). Later he studied medicine at the Universities of Kiel and Berlin, where in 1828 he received his doctorate. After six months in Paris, he returned to Bern.

In 1836 as a naturalist, he journeyed to Dauphiné and Provence in France, the Balearic Islands and Algeria. From these travels he collected a large number of insect, reptile and amphibian species. In 1837 he was the first to describe the frog genus Discoglossus based on the Mediterranean Painted Frog (Discoglossus pictus).

In 1838 he published a book with thirty lithographs based on a trip to Algiers, titled Esquisses africaines, dessinées pendant un voyage a Alger et lithographiées par Adolphe Otth. In 1839 during a journey to the Middle East, he died in Jerusalem at the age of 36.

The standard author abbreviation Otth is used to indicate this individual as the author when citing a botanical name.^[1]

References

• This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.

1. ^ "Author Query". International Plant Names Index. http://www.ipni.org/ipni/authorsearchpage.do. 

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Name	Otth, Carl Adolf
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Date of birth	April 2, 1803
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Date of death	May 16, 1839
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