Otto Stoll

Otto Stoll

Otto Stoll (born December 29, 1849 in Frauenfeld , † August 18, 1922 in Zurich ) was a Swiss physician , linguist , ethnologist and geographer .

Life

The son of the Post and Railway Director Georg Stoll studied medicine at the University of Zurich from 1868 to 1873 . He then practiced in Mettmenstetten , Zurich and Klosters . In 1877 he received his doctorate. From 1878 to 1883 he traveled to Guatemala . From 1884 he was private lecturer for ethnography and anthropology at the University of Zurich, from 1886 private lecturer for geography at the Polytechnic Zurich. In 1891 he returned to the University of Zurich, where he worked as an associate professor and from 1895 to 1912 as the first full professor of geography with the inclusion of ethnology. From 1889 to 1898 Stoll was the first director of the Ethnographic Collection in Zurich, and from 1898 to 1919 he was curator at the Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich .

His material-rich work on suggestion and hypnotism in ethnic psychology is particularly well known . « The purpose of my work was to draw the anthropologists' attention to a category of psychological phenomena which up to now have, so to speak, received no attention in the ethnological field (...) » (from the foreword).

Fonts (selection)

• On the ethnography of the Republic of Guatemala. Zurich: Orell Füssli, 1884.
• Guatemala. Travels and descriptions from the years 1878–1883. Leipzig, 1886.
• Biologia Centrali-Americana / Arachnida - Acaridea. London: Taylor and Francis, 1886-1893.
• The language of the Ixil Indians. A contribution to the ethnology and linguistics of the Maya peoples. In addition to an appendix. Vocabulary lists from northwestern Guatemala. Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1887.
• Suggestion and Hypnotism in Ethnic Psychology. Leipzig: Koehler, 1894; 2nd revised and increased edition: Leipzig: Veit, 1904. Digitized
• On the zoogeography of land-dwelling invertebrates. Berlin: Friedländer, 1897.
• The sex life in national psychology. Leipzig: Veit, 1908.
• To the knowledge of the magic belief of folk magic and folk medicine in Switzerland. Zurich: F. Lohbauer's printing press, 1909.

literature

• Johannes Strohl: Otto Stoll (1849–1922): Member of the Natural Research Society in Zurich since 1875. In: Quarterly publication of the Natural Research Society in Zurich. 69: 128-171 (1924).

Web links

• Books by and about Otto Stoll in Swiss library catalogs ( Swissbib )
• Beatrice Hasler: Stoll, Otto. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .