Otto Günther (fossil collector)

Otto Carl Günther (born June 19, 1855 in Düren ; † after 1903) was a German fossil collector who worked in South America.

Life

Otto Günther worked as a chemist in the last quarter of the 19th century and later as one of the directors of Liebig's Extract of Meat Company in Fray Bentos in Uruguay . Otto Günther discovered numerous fossils during his time in South America and sent the most important finds from time to time to the paleontological collection of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Otto Günther was born on August 5, 1881 with matriculation no. 2318 accepted as a member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina in the mineralogy and geology section .

In 1893 Otto Günther was awarded the silver academic medal Bene merenti of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences for sending fossil bones excavated from the South American pampas to the President of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Max von Pettenkofer, and for donating them to the paleontological collection .

literature

Willi Ule : History of the Imperial Leopoldine-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the years 1852–1887 . With a look back at the earlier times of its existence. Commissioned by Wilhelm Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1889, supplements and additions to Neigebaur's history, p. 215 ( archive.org ).

Web links

Member entry of Otto Guenther in the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

References and comments

↑ Carl Hermann Knoblauch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 17th issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1881, p. 123 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
↑ Public meeting to celebrate the 134th Foundation Day on March 21, 1893. In: Meeting reports of the mathematical-physical class of the kb Academy of Sciences in Munich, XXIII, year 1893, Munich 1894, p. 112 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Günther, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Günther, Otto Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German fossil collector
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Düren
DATE OF DEATH	after 1903

[1] Carl Hermann Knoblauch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 17th issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1881, p. 123 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

[2] Public meeting to celebrate the 134th Foundation Day on March 21, 1893. In: Meeting reports of the mathematical-physical class of the kb Academy of Sciences in Munich, XXIII, year 1893, Munich 1894, p. 112 ( digitized version )