> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 6](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33066308) of TL-2 Vol. VII > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/11293-1) LSID 11293-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21339129) QID Q21339129 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Wächter, Wilhelm (1870-1928), German (Schleswig-Holstein) botanist; student pharmacist in Hamburg, Hildburghausen, Frankfurt a. M. and Kolberg; state examination pharmacy München; Dr. phil. Rostock 1897; assistant with K. Goebel 1897-1901, with Wieler in Aachen 1901-1903; with W. Pfeffer in Leipzig 1903-1905; with Karl A.E. Müller in Berlin at the plant physiological laboratory of the Gardener's College at Dahlem 1905-1907; with L. Kny at Botanical Institute of the College for Agriculture ib. 1907-1909 (as guest 1909-1921), scientist at the Prussian Institute for environmental control (Inst. Wasser-, Boden-, Lufthygiene) from 1909-1918; secretary of the Deutsche botanische Gesellschaft 1907-1921; ultimately active as private scientist in München. **Abbreviated name**: *Wächter* \[standard form in IPNI: *W.Wächt.*\] #### Herbarium and types Unknown. #### Note Johann Karl Augustin Wächter (1773-1846) was a German (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) forester in the Kingdom of Hannover (see R. Hoss, Lebensbild. hervorr. Forstmänn., Berlin 1885, p. 387-388). #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 3: 447 (b. 23 Mar 1870, d. 26 Jun 1928); Biol.-Dokum. 18: 9671; BJI 2: 185; GR p. 52, cat. p. 73; Hirsch p. 313; LS 28123, 40345-40348. #### Biofile - Anon., Hedwigia 68: (48). 1928 (d.); Österr. bot. Ges. 77: 240. 1928 (d.). - Miehe, W., Ber. deut. bot. Ges. 46: (199)-(204). 1928 (obit., portr., bibl.). - Wächter, W., Apotheker Zeit. 1927 (88), 5 p. "Königsberger Getöse. Eine freundliche Abwehr", (polemics on serodiagnostics).