Short answers, pulled from the story.
Nicolaus August Otto was born on the 10th of June 1832 in the small village of Holzhausen an der Haide, Germany. He spent his early years in this village before moving to Langenschwalbach for high school in 1848.
Nicolaus Otto and Eugen Langen formed the company NA Otto & Cie on the 31st of March 1864. This partnership created the world's first company focused entirely on the design and production of internal combustion engines.
The four stroke cycle engine known as the Otto Silent Engine appeared in the autumn of 1876. This engine was the first commercially successful engine to use in-cylinder compression and marked a pivotal moment in engineering history.
Beau De Rochas was the French engineer who received a patent for the concept of a four cycle engine in 1862. This patent was issued before Nicolaus Otto and Gottlieb Daimler were aware of it and later allowed Daimler to sell engines without paying royalties.
Nicolaus Otto received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Würzburg in 1882 and won a gold medal at the 1867 World Exhibition in Paris. He died in 1890, leaving behind a legacy that included the standardization of the term Ottomotor by Professor Nagël in 1936.