Otto Steinböck

Otto Steinböck (10 April 1893 – 6 October 1969) was an Austrian zoologist.

Life Steinböck was born in 1893 in Graz, as the ninth of 11 children. In 1911, after finishing the basic school with distinction, he started to study Law at his father's request, although his passion was zoology.

After passing the first state exam, he moved on 1 October 1913 to Nevesinje, Herzegovina, in order to serve as a one-year volunteer in the Austria-Hungary's mountain artillery. When the war broke out, he came to the Serbian front. He was wounded in 1914 and in 1918 was decorated first lieutenant and battery commander while in captivity in Trento, Italy, returning home in October 1919.

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