J. G. O. Tepper
Johann Gottlieb Otto Tepper was a Prussian-born botanist, teacher, plant collector and entomologist who spent most of his life living and working in Australia. He spent much of his career with the South Australian Museum.
History
Tepper was born in Neutomischel, Posen, Prussia on 19 April 1841. He was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Tepper, and Johanne Wilhelmine Tepper, née Protsch, and emigrated with them aboard Gellert, arriving in South Australia in 1847. They settled at Lyndoch, where he was educated before receiving tuition under Dr. Carl Muecke.He became master of a small country school, then joined the Education Department and taught at Monarto, Nuriootpa and Clarendon.
In 1883 he was appointed natural history collector to the South Australian Museum and from 1888 until his retirement, on 30 June 1911 as entomologist, for which he gave valued service. He was a longtime member of the Royal Society, and a foundation member and several times president, of the Field Naturalists Society.
He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1879, was a Life Fellow of the Society of Science, Letters and Art, London, and an active member of around thirty learned societies including the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a correspondent and friend of the meteorologist Clement Wragge.
Family
Otto Tepper married Jane Brock on 22 April 1867- John William Otto Tepper, lived in Perth, Western Australia
- Isabella Wilhelmine Victoria Tepper married William Lachlan Cowan on 25 November 1895
- Marion Elizabeth Lilliana Tepper married Carl Otto Goldick in 1897
Paul Tepper, pioneer farmer of Monarto, then of Murtoa, Victoria was a brother.