> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 857](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355944) of TL-2 Vol. III > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/12717-1) LSID 12717-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115917) QID Q115917 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Otth, \[Carl\] Adolph (1803-1839), Swiss physician and naturalist; pupil of A.-P. de Candolle; collaborator of Seringe; physician at Bern, travelling widely; died of the plague while in Jerusalem. **Abbreviated name**: *Otth* \[standard form in IPNI: *Otth*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection G|G]]-DC. – The "Herbarium Otth" at [[Collection BERN|BERN]], mainly mycological, was brought together by Adolph Otth's brother Gustav (1806-1874). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 37; BM 3: 1484-1485; CSP 4: 712; Hortus 3: 1201; PR (alph.); TL-2/999. - Briquet, J., Bull. Soc. bot. Suisse 50a: 358-359. 1940 (biogr.). - Brunner, Verh. Schweiz. naturf. Ges. 24: 204-210. 1839 (obit., b. 2 Apr 1803, d. 16 Mai 1839). - Candolle, Alph. de, Phytographie 438. 1880. - Candolle, A. P. de, Mém. Souvenirs 332, 386. 1862. - Fischer, E., Mitt. naturf. Ges. Bern 1908: 91-122. 1909 (biogr. of O's brother Gustav with some details on family), 1914(2): 13, 17, 27. - Pritzel, G. A., Linnaea 19(3): 459. 1846. - Stafleu, F. A., The great Prodromus 29. 1966. #### Composite works Candolle, A. P. de, *Prodr. Silene* in 1: 367-385. med. Jan 1924. #### Eponymy *Otthia* Nitschke ex Fuckel (1870); *Otthiella* (P. A. Saccardo) P. A. Saccardo et D. Saccardo (1905).