Otto Plath

Otto Plath
Plath in 1930
Born	Otto Emil Plath (1885-04-13)April 13, 1885 Grabow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany[1]
Died	November 5, 1940(1940-11-05) (aged 55) Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States
Resting place	Winthrop Cemetery, Winthrop, Massachusetts
Occupation	Author, entomologist
Nationality	German and American
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Harvard University
Spouse	Aurelia Schober
Children	Sylvia Plath Warren Plath

Otto Emil Plath (April 13, 1885 – November 5, 1940) was a German-American writer, academic, and biologist. Plath worked as a professor of biology and German language at Boston University and as an entomologist, with a specific expertise on bumblebees. He was the father of American poet Sylvia Plath and Warren Plath, and the husband of Aurelia Plath. He wrote the 1934 book Bumblebees and Their Ways. He is notable for being the subject of "Daddy", one of his daughter's most well-known poems.