Otto Bollinger

Otto Bollinger (2 April 1843 – 13 August 1909) was a German pathologist born in Altenkirchen, Kusel, Rhineland-Palatinate.

[2] Bollinger had an extensive background in veterinary medicine and was known for his studies of rabies in the days before the discovery of an anti-rabies vaccine.

In 1877, he described the etiologic agent of bovine actinomycosis ("lumpy jaw"), an organism that is now referred to as Actinomyces bovis.

In 1891, Bollinger provided an early description of a delayed traumatic apoplexy he called "traumatische Spät-Apoplexie".

His research was based on four patients who suffered a head injury, in which death occurred days to weeks later from an apoplectic event.