Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter

German botanist (1884-1958).

Wilhelm Gustav Franz Herter (10 January 1884 in Berlin – 17 April 1958 in Hamburg) was a German-Uruguayan botanist and mycologist. In 1908, he received his doctorate in Berlin with a dissertation on the genus Lycopodium. From 1923 to 1939, he lived and worked in Uruguay, gaining Uruguayan citizenship in 1925. In Montevideo, he was associated with its botanical garden and museum, and in the meantime taught classes at the university. In 1934, he became director of the Revista Sudamericana de Botánica. During the Second World War, Herter was Director of the Nazi-publishing series Veröffentlichung