The term "Homotopy" was given by whom?

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I want to know the names who define the term 'Homotopy' in algebraic topology in 1907. Are they Dehn and Paul Heegaard?

What is the full name of Dehn?

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According to Jean Dieudonné, A history of Algebraic and Differential Topology, 1900-1960 (1989), page 43 :

The words homotopy and isotopy were coined by Dehn and Heegaard in their Enzyklopädie article with a purely combinatorial definition adapted to their "abstract" conception of homology ([*], pp. 205-207), and they were not retained by later workers, with the exception of Steinitz.

Brouwer [in 1912] seems to have been the first to give our present definition of homotopy ([L.E.J.Brouwer, Collected Works, vol. II, North Holland, Amsterdam, 1976], p. 462)

[*] The paper by Max Dehn and Poul Heegaard, Analysis Situs, Enzykl. der math. Wiss., Ill 1 AB 3, Teubner, Leipzig, 1907.