Carl Adolf Otth
Carl Adolf (Adolphe) Otth (April 2, 1803, Bern - May 16, 1839) was a Swiss medical doctor and naturalist. He was the brother of mycologist Gustav Heinrich Otth (1806-1874). 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).
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Carl Adolf Otth
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- Switzerland
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- botanist · physician · draftsperson · zoologist · naturalist · painter
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- botany
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Carl Adolf (Adolphe) Otth (April 2, 1803, Bern - May 16, 1839) was a Swiss medical doctor and naturalist. He was the brother of mycologist Gustav Heinrich Otth (1806-1874). 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).
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Born at Bern in 1803, died in Jerusalem in 1839.
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- 1.Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l’indication des sources à consulter.
- 2.Esquisses africaines : dessinées pendant un voyage à Alger et lithographiées / par Adolphe Otth.
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