Otto Emil Plath (April 13, 1885 – November 5, 1940) was a German American author, academic, and biologist. Plath worked as a professor of biology and German at Boston University, and as an entomologist, with a specific expertise on honey bees. He was the father of American poet Sylvia Plath, 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 one of his daughter's most well-known poems, Daddy.
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13 April 1885 Grabow, Germany
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5 November 1940 (aged 55) Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States
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Zodiac | Aries |
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