Oskar Boettger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Oskar Boettger

German herpetologist

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1844

Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 25-Sep-1910

Profession: zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, malacologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Oskar Boettger

  • Oskar Boettger (German: Böttger; 31 March 1844 – 25 September 1910) was a German zoologist who was a native of Frankfurt am Main.
  • He was an uncle of the noted malacologist Caesar Rudolf Boettger (1888–1976). From 1863 to 1866 he studied at the Bergakademie Freiberg, then worked for a year in a chemical factory in Frankfurt am Main.
  • In 1869 he received his doctorate from the University of Würzburg.
  • The following year (1870), he became a paleontologist at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt, where in 1875 he became the curator of the museum's department of herpetology.
  • He is credited for making Senckenberg's herpetological collection among the best in Europe. Boettger had agoraphobia and rarely left home, never setting foot in a museum from 1876 to 1894.
  • Thus he relied on assistants to bring specimens he needed for his research.
  • He was editor of Katalog der batrachier- Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main as well as Katalog der Reptilien- Sammlung im Museum der Senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main, both catalogs being issued by the Senckenberg Museum.
  • Also, he was co-author of the herpetology volume for the third edition of Alfred Brehm's Tierleben.
  • During the latter stages of his career he taught classes at the Wöhler-Realgymnasium in Frankfurt and also engaged in some foreign travel.Boettger was married, and he honored his wife, Hermine Boettger, by naming a species of snake after her, Cyclophiops herminae.

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