When Ernst Richard Otto was born on 2 February 1873, in Görlitz, Silesia, Prussia, Germany, his father, Johann Karl Ernst Otto, was 29 and his mother, Johanne Caroline Augusta Huebel, was 23. He married Lina Ida Oesterreich on 2 December 1904. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 27 March 1948, in his hometown, at the age of 75.
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German, Danish, Swedish, and Dutch; Hungarian (Ottó): from the personal name Otto, a short form of ancient Germanic compound names based on the element aud, ōd ‘wealth, prosperity’ (see also Ott ). The name Otto was a hereditary name in the Saxon ruling house, as well as being borne by Otto von Wittelsbach, who founded the Bavarian ruling dynasty in the 11th century, and the 12th-century Saint Otto of Bamberg, apostle of Pomerania.
History: This name was introduced to America by Bodo Otto, a senior surgeon of the Continental Army, who was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1711, came to North America in 1755, and practiced in NJ and PA. He died in Reading, PA, in 1787.
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