Bernhard Christian Otto

Bernhard Christian Otto (6 March 1745 – 5 November 1835) was a German doctor, professor of medicine, naturalist and economist.

Otto was born in Niepars near Stralsund to Pastor Gotthard Joachim Jacob Otto of Niepars and his wife Agnese Regina, daughter of Pastor Dionisius Casper Droysen (died 1765) of Dersekow.

In 1772 he became a teacher at the Greifswald medical faculty where he gave lectures in surgery and delivery for midwives and surgeons.

He also served as rector at the University of Greifswald before moving to Frankfurt as a professor of medicine at the Alma Mater Viadrina in 1788.

Thus Otto became the binomial authority for the "Cayenne black and white woodpecker" Picus candidus.