Othenio Abel

Othenio Abel
Born	(1875-06-20)20 June 1875 Vienna
Died	4 July 1946(1946-07-04) (aged 71) Mondsee
Awards	Bigsby Medal (1911) Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal (1920)
Scientific career
Fields	Paleontology

Othenio Lothar Franz Anton Louis Abel (20 June 1875 – 4 July 1946) was an Austrian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. Together with Louis Dollo, he was the founder of "paleobiology" and studied the life and environment of fossilized organisms.^[1]