Otto C. Glaser

Otto Charles Glaser (October 13, 1880 – 1951) was an American zoologist.

Biography He was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. His parents were of French and German descent, and he came with them to the United States while very young. He got his early education in private schools in Baltimore, and then spent two years in Baltimore City College (1894-1896). In 1900 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University. His doctoral thesis was "The Larva of Fasciolaria tulipa (var. distans)".

Glaser had two children with his first wife Dorothy Gibbs Merrylees whom he married in 1909 and divorced in 1933. and the daughter of Read Admiral William C. Gibson, died of cancer in 1940. In 1941 he married the biomathematician Dorothy Wrinch. In 1944 Glaser was forced to resign as chairman because he had allowed his research assistant, who was supported with Rockefeller Foundation money, to spend time working for Wrinch. Glaser was not allowed any more research funding and retired in 1948. He died of kidney disease and diabetes in 1951.

Publications

Über den kannibalismus bei Fasciolaria tulipa (var. distans) und deren larvale excretionsorgane. 1904. Johns Hopkins PhD thesis. Collected reprints, 1924

Note