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Otto Plath
Photograph of Otto Plath standing in front of a blackboard in 1930
Plath in 1930
BornOtto Emil Plath
(1885-04-13)April 13, 1885
Grabow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany[1]
DiedNovember 5, 1940(1940-11-05) (aged 55)
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States
Resting placeWinthrop Cemetery, Winthrop, Massachusetts
OccupationAuthor, entomologist
NationalityGerman and American
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materHarvard University
SpouseAurelia Schober
ChildrenSylvia 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.

  1. ^ Kirk 2004, p. 9.

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