Cotta

Cotta is a Roman cognomen, and, derived from it, a modern family name.

Cotta is the surname of the following persons:

• Aurelia Cotta († 54 BC ), mother of the Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar
• Bernhard von Cotta (1808-1879), German geologist
• Bonaventura Cotta (1370-1430), founder of the Eisenach - Cotta Family
• Carloto Cotta ( born 1984 ), Portuguese actor
• Christoph Friedrich Cotta (1758-1838), lawyer and Jacobin in Mainz and Strasbourg
• Emma Cotta (1880-1957), German artist
• Friedrich August von Cotta (1799-1860), German forestry scientist and professor at the Forestry College Tharandt
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Cotta (1796-1874), co-director of the Forestry College Tharandt and later head of the Saxon Forestry Survey Institute
• Gaius Aurelius Cotta (consul 252 BC ), Roman consul BC in the years 252 and 248 BC
• Gaius Aurelius Cotta (consul 200 BC ), Roman consul in 200 BC
• Gaius Aurelius Cotta (consul 75 BC) (~ 124-74/73 BC ), Roman consul in the year 75 BC
• Georg von Cotta (1796-1863), German publisher, industrial pioneer and politician
• Giacomo Cotta (1627-1689), Italian painter
• Heinrich Cotta (1763-1844), German forestry scientist
• Heinrich Cotta (painter) ( 1791-1856 ), German painter, engraver, draftsman and etcher
• Herbert Schmidt- Cotta († 2009), German politician
• Horst Cotta (1928-2011), German physician
• Johann Friedrich Cotta (1764-1832), German publisher
• Johann Friedrich Cotta ( theologian ) ( 1701-1779 ), German theologian
• Lucius Aurelius Cotta (consul 144 BC ), Roman consul
• Lucius Aurelius Cotta (consul 119 BC ), Roman consul
• Lucius Aurelius Cotta ( tribune ), Roman tribune 103 BC
• Lucius Aurelius Cotta ( praetor ), Roman Praetor 95 BC
• Lucius Aurelius Cotta (consul 65 BC ), Roman consul
• Lucius Cotta Aurunculeius († 54 BC ), Roman legate in the army of Gaius Julius Caesar
• Marcus Aurelius Cotta Roman politician and military leader
• Myron Joseph Cotta ( born 1953 ), American bishop
• Ursula Cotta († 1511), patrician, Martin Luther took into her house in Eisenach

Cotta is the name of several places:

• Cotta ( Dohma ), a district of Dohma, District Saxon Switzerland & Eastern Ore Mountains, Saxony
• Cotta (Dresden), a district of Dresden
• Cotta ( local exchange area ), a local exchange area of Dresden

Cotta also referred to:

• An ancient land and Stückmaß, see Cotta (unit)

See also:

• Cotta'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
• Klett- Cotta Verlag
• Cotta 's sound stage, sound recordings series of the publishing house Klett- Cotta
• Dorsum of Cotta, named after Bernhard von Cotta seamounts on Earth's Moon
• Cottaer sandstone, clastic sedimentary rock
• Panna Cotta, Northern Italian dessert
• Cota

• Disambiguation