Otto Zacharias

Emil Otto Zacharias (January 27, 1846, Leipzig – October 2, 1916, Kiel) was a German zoologist and plankton researcher, as well as popularizer of science and journalist.

For many years he worked as a tutor in Italy, where he devoted himself mainly to the popular science presenting complex issues of biology.

[1] Zacharias held a long correspondence with leading researchers and writers in Prussia and elsewhere, including Ernst Haeckel, Charles Darwin, Rudolf Virchow, Joseph Kürschner and Wilhelm Bölsche.

[3][4] As the director Zacharias published research reports from 1893 on the activities at Plön station, which were recorded from 1905 in the Archives of Hydrobiology.

[5] In so-called "summer schools" Zacharias trained teachers and laity interested in working with the microscope.