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| birth_place = Elberfeld, Rhine Province, Prussia (Elberfeld, Düsseldorf, Rheinprovinz, Preussen) | | birth_place = Elberfeld, Rhine Province, Prussia (Elberfeld, Düsseldorf, Rheinprovinz, Preussen) | ||
| death_date = 1 August 1907 | | death_date = 1 August 1907 | ||
| death_place = Cologne, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany | | death_place = Cologne, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany (Köln, Rheinprovinz, Prussia, Deutsches Reich) | ||
| nationality = {{unbulleted list|Prussian|British|}} | | nationality = {{unbulleted list|Prussian|British|}} | ||
| other_names = {{unbulleted list|Otto Boettger}} | | other_names = {{unbulleted list|Otto Boettger}} | ||
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=== In Australia === | === In Australia === | ||
Arriving at Port Adelaide in July 1877, the couple soon moved to the heart of the German quarter of the city, living and working in Gawler place. Initially Otto worked for the firm of A. W. Dobbie and Co., providing maintenance and repair work for customers of the foundry, but by January 1878 he was listing himself separately as a mathematical and surgical instrumentmaker in Gawler Place, submitting a patent for a "MECHANICAL APPARATUS for Raising and Cooling Beverages of all kinds through compressed purified and cooled air", and by February of the same year was in business with D. Schmidt as manufacturers of industrial machines.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207642980 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[The Express And Telegraph]] |volume=XV, |issue=4,192 |location=South Australia |date=14 January 1878 |accessdate=28 September 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40780114 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XLIII, |issue=9745 |location=South Australia |date=7 February 1878 |accessdate=28 September 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The partnership did not last long, and Böttger was soon advertising his own business, situated in Flinders Street opposite the Stow Memorial | Arriving at Port Adelaide in July 1877, the couple soon moved to the heart of the German quarter of the city, living and working in Gawler place. Initially Otto worked for the firm of A. W. Dobbie and Co., providing maintenance and repair work for customers of the foundry, but by January 1878 he was listing himself separately as a mathematical and surgical instrumentmaker in Gawler Place, submitting a patent for a "MECHANICAL APPARATUS for Raising and Cooling Beverages of all kinds through compressed purified and cooled air", and by February of the same year was in business with D. Schmidt as manufacturers of industrial machines.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207642980 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[The Express And Telegraph]] |volume=XV, |issue=4,192 |location=South Australia |date=14 January 1878 |accessdate=28 September 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article40780114 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XLIII, |issue=9745 |location=South Australia |date=7 February 1878 |accessdate=28 September 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The partnership did not last long, and Böttger was soon advertising his own business, situated in Flinders Street (on the site of the current Department of Education, opposite the old Stow Memorial Manse), a location he operated from until the end of 1881, when he relocated to the premises on Flinders Street he is most widely known for. <ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42976789 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XLIV, |issue=10,034 |location=South Australia |date=11 January 1879 |accessdate=28 September 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42976789 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=XLIV, |issue=10,034 |location=South Australia |date=11 January 1879 |accessdate=28 September 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> | ||
The move to larger premises was made possible by the contract work obtained from the SA Colonial Government Surveying Department, who in 1880 chose Böttger as the only local creator and supplier of theodolites and other survey instruments, both because of the high quality of work, the ease of accessibility, and the lower prices.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197738934 |title=Latest News. |newspaper=[[Evening Journal]] |volume=XII, |issue=3435 |location=South Australia |date=17 April 1880 |accessdate=28 September 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> This work set Otto up for the rest of his business life in Australia as his reputation grew, firstly across government in the other Australian colonies, then in the private and higher education sectors, as a supplier of high quality scientific, optical and engineering instruments. | The move to larger premises was made possible by the contract work obtained from the SA Colonial Government Surveying Department, who in 1880 chose Böttger as the only local creator and supplier of theodolites and other survey instruments, both because of the high quality of work, the ease of accessibility, and the lower prices.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197738934 |title=Latest News. |newspaper=[[Evening Journal]] |volume=XII, |issue=3435 |location=South Australia |date=17 April 1880 |accessdate=28 September 2023 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> This work set Otto up for the rest of his business life in Australia as his reputation grew, firstly across government in the other Australian colonies, then in the private and higher education sectors, as a supplier of high quality scientific, optical and engineering instruments. | ||
On March 4, 1899, Otto and Johanne left South Australia aboard the Barbarossa, bound for Bremen and retirement in Germany. <ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87788336 |title=Shipping News. |newspaper=[[Chronicle]] |volume=41, |issue=2,116 |location=South Australia |date=11 March 1899 |accessdate=29 September 2023 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> | Böttger maintained connections with other members of the German community on Adelaide and was a member of the committee of the German Club in Pirie Street, along with other city businessmen such as [[Johann Friedrich Martin Armbruster (1826-1897)|Friedrich Armbruster]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47281503 |title=Advertising |newspaper=[[South Australian Register]] |volume=LV, |issue=13,689 |location=South Australia |date=27 September 1890 |accessdate=29 September 2023 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> | ||
In 1894, Otto made a trip back to Germany.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article92858409 |title=Shipping News. |newspaper=[[South Australian Chronicle]] |volume=XXXVI, |issue=1,859 |location=South Australia |date=7 April 1894 |accessdate=29 September 2023 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> | |||
On March 4, 1899, Otto and Johanne left South Australia aboard the Barbarossa, bound for Bremen and retirement in Germany. <ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87788336 |title=Shipping News. |newspaper=[[Chronicle]] |volume=41, |issue=2,116 |location=South Australia |date=11 March 1899 |accessdate=29 September 2023 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> he died in 1907 and Johanne continued to live in Köln (Cologne) until her death in 1921. | |||
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==External links== | ==External links== | ||
Boettger, Otto. 1896, ''Catalogue of engineering, surveying, optical and scientific instruments manufactured and imported by Otto Boettger, optician and scientific instrument maker to the South Australian and other governments..'' [Otto Boettger], Adelaide viewed 29 September 2023 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-39928893 | * Boettger, Otto. 1896, ''Catalogue of engineering, surveying, optical and scientific instruments manufactured and imported by Otto Boettger, optician and scientific instrument maker to the South Australian and other governments..'' [Otto Boettger], Adelaide viewed 29 September 2023 http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-39928893 | ||
* Randell, Mark (2011) ‘Otto Boettger: Manufacturing optician, Flinders Street, Adelaide’, ''Tappet Chatter: Newsletter of the Adelaide Hills Motor Restorers Club'', http://www.ahmrc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/otto-boettger-optician.pdf | |||
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