Swiss physician and naturalist (botany) (1803-1839).
Carl Adolf (Adolphe) Otth (April 2, 1803, Bern - May 16, 1839) was a Swiss medical doctor and naturalist. He was the brother of mycologist Gustav Heinrich Otth (1806-1874). In 1822 he studied medicine in Bern, and afterwards attended classes on natural history in Geneva, where he had as instructors, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841) and Nicolas Charles Seringe (1776-1858). He later studied medicine at the Universities of Kiel and Berlin, where in 1828 he received his doctorate. After six months in Paris, he returned to Bern. In 1836 as a naturalist, he journeyed to Dauphiné and Provence