Otto Stoll was a professor of
ethnology and
geography at the
University of Zurich who specialized in research of
Mayan languages. From 1878 to 1883 he conducted scientific studies in
Guatemala. He was the author of several treatises on Guatemala, including important works in the fields on
ethnography and
ethno-linguistics. Stoll also published on neotropical
Acari with a major work being the volume in the Biologia Centrali-Americana between Dec. 1886 and Jan. 1893.
Publications
Zur Ethnographie der Republik Guatemala (Ethnography of the Republic of Guatemala), 1884.
Guatemala: Reisen und Schilderungen aus den Jahren 1878–1883 (Guatemala: travel and descriptions from the years 1878–1883), 1886.
Die Sprache der Ixil-Indianer: ein Beitrag zur Ethnologie und Linguistik der Maya-Völker (The language of the
Ixil people: a contribution to
anthropology and linguistics of the Mayan peoples), 1887.
Die Sprache der Ixil-Indianer/ Nebst einem Anhang/ Wortverzeichnisse aus dem nordwestlichen Guatemala (The language of the Ixil people; including an addendum and directory of northwestern Guatemala), 1887.
Suggestion und Hypnotismus in der Völkerpsychologie (Suggestion and
hypnotism in ethnic psychology), 1894.
Zur Zoogeographie der landbewohnenden Wirbellosen (
Zoogeography of terrestrial
invertebrates), 1897.
Das Geschlechtsleben in der Völkerpsychologie, (Sex life in ethnic psychology), 1908
Zur Kenntnis des Zauberglaubens der Volksmagie und Volksmedizin in der Schweiz (Information involving the fascination with folk magic and
medicine in
Switzerland), 1909.
References
This article is based on a translation of an equivalent article at the
German Wikipedia.