About Otto Bremer
Lived 1812 – 1873 (aged 60–61). Otto Bremer was a Russian lepidopterist, biologist, architect, painter and entomologist.
Otto Vasilievich Bremer (died 11 November 1873) was a Russian naturalist and entomologist.
He wrote: Beiträge zur Schmetterlings-fauna des Nödrlichen China's (1853) with Vasilii Fomich Grey (William Grey). "Neue Lepidopteren aus Ost-Sibirien und dem Amur Lande, gesammelt von Radde und Maack, beschrieben von Otto Bremer" (1861) , 3(7): 461-496 "Lepidopteren Ost-Sibiriens, insbesondere der Amur-Landes, gesammelt von den Herren G.Radde, R.Maack und P.Wulfius" (1864) Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de St.-Pétersbourg, 7 ser., 8(1): 103 pages
He described many insects, including the large skipper butterfly. Bremer's collection is in the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Science in Saint Petersburg where he lived.
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Who was Otto Bremer?
Russian scientist (1812-1873)
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Otto Bremer was born in 1812.
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Otto Bremer died on 11 November 1873.
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Otto Bremer was a lepidopterist, biologist, architect, painter and entomologist.
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Otto Bremer was Russian.
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· DBpedia: Otto Vasilievich Bremer
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