Otto Gottlieb Mohnike

Otto Gottlieb Mohnike (27 July 1814 – 26 January 1887) was a German physician and naturalist who was a native of Stralsund.

From 1844 to 1869 he was a doctor in the services of the Dutch military, afterwards working as a physician in Bonn, where he died on 26 January 1887.

Mohnike is remembered for implementing the first successful nationwide smallpox vaccination in Japan.

In 1849 he instituted the practice of delivering fresh cowpox vaccine from Batavia in the Dutch East Indies to the Japanese port of Nagasaki, thus creating a sharp reduction of smallpox in Japan.

Afterwards, he conducted research as a naturalist on Java, Sumatra, Celebes and the Moluccas.