Otto Bremer

Otto Vasilievich Bremer (1812-1873) was a Russian naturalist and entomologist. There is no record that he worked as a painter; he is known for his study of insects, particularly butterflies and moths, and for describing many species, including a large skipper butterfly.

He lived in Saint Petersburg, where he built his entomological collection, now held by the Zoological Museum of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Among his early works is a study of the butterfly fauna of northern China, written in 1853 together with Vasilii Fomich Grey (William Grey).

In 1861 he published in the Bulletin of the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint Petersburg a description of Lepidoptera from eastern Siberia and the Amur region, collected by Radde and Maack. In 1864 he expanded this work into a 103-page monograph in the academy's Memoirs, which included specimens gathered by Wulfius. His contribution is remembered mainly for these taxonomic descriptions.