Otto Hahn
1828–1904
Swabian lawyer, civil servant, naturalist, and social campaigner. Studied law and natural sciences at Tübingen. Worked at the Department of Justice and Department of the Interior, and spent four years in a religious commune before starting his own law firm. Promoted emigrationist colonialism as a solution for poverty in German agricultural communities, in particular by recruiting emigrants to Canada. Collected fossils and explored settlement opportunities in Canada in 1878. Moved to Toronto, Canada, in 1888, but returned to Germany in 1903. Awarded an honorary doctorate for his work on Eozoon canadense.
Source
Sauer 2007.
Bibliography
Sauer, Angelika E. 2007. The unbounded German nation: Dr. Otto Hahn and German emigration to Canada in the 1870s and 1880s. Canadian Ethnic Studies 39: 129–44.
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