Albert Peter

German botanist (1853-1937).

Gustav Albert Peter (21 August 1853, in Gumbinnen – 4 October 1937, in Göttingen) was a German botanist. In 1874 he received his doctorate from the University of Königsberg, and later on, worked as a curator at the botanical garden in Munich. In Munich, he edited the well-known exsiccata Hieracia Naegeliana [exsiccata] (1884–1886) with a number of Hieracium specimens from the herbarium of Carl Nägeli, some of them observed and collected at the Alter Botanischer Garten (Munich). From 1888 to 1923 he was a professor at the University of Göttingen, where he also served as director of the botanica