Charles Otto

Charles Otto

Prof. Charles Otto
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Born	1795
Died	1879
Residence	Copenhagen
Occupation	medical academic
Society Membership membership ESL, AI Hon. Fellow left 1879 deceased elected_ESL 1853.03.10 elected_AI 1853 societies Phrenological Association

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Notes From Elsewhere

Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal vol. 39 mentions Dr Charles Otto of Copenhagen
Dr Charles Otto, Prof. and Chairmaster in Kopenhagen [freemason]
... the excellent Otto, whose name is well known to the medical world throughout Europe, but more particularly in England, by his 'Travels through Switzerland, Italy, France, Great Britain, and Holland'. This valuable work, published in German in 1825, treats very fully of our prisons and other establishments. Its author is claimed by the phrenologists of Edinburgh as one of their ablest allies.
.... In Copenhagen, the leading Danish phrenologist, Dr Charles Otto, was favoured by the king, who had attended his lectures some years before
[annual meeting of Forfar Phrenological Society]: after the business of the meeting was concluded, upwards of forty of the members sat down to an excellent dinner in Ross's Inn ...the following toasts were proposed ... 'Dr Otto of Copenhagen' by Mr Booth, surgeon ...

Publications

External Publications

Travels in Great Britain, France and Switzerland

History of Freemansonry in Denmark