Otto Schoetensack (; July 12, 1850 in
Stendal – December 23, 1912 in Ospidaletto) was a
German industrialist and later professor of
anthropology, born of financial means. During an archeological dig, he oversaw the worker Daniel Hartmann who found the lower jaw of a
hominid, the oldest human fossil then known, which Schoetensack later described formally as
Homo heidelbergensis.