Education
He studied medicine at the University of Dorpat, obtaining his doctorate in 1866 at Tübingen.
university professor Zoologist
He studied medicine at the University of Dorpat, obtaining his doctorate in 1866 at Tübingen.
He is remembered for his studies involving the biological development of various animals. The invertebrate species Opisthocystis goettei (Bresslau, 1906) is named after him. From 1882 to 1886 he was director of the zoological institute at the University of Rostock, afterwards returning to Strasbourg, where he taught classes until 1918.
Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities.
