Robert Lauterborn

German botanist, entomologist, hydrologist and zoologist (1869-1952).

Robert Lauterborn (23 October 1869 - 11 September 1952) was a German botanist, limnologist and protozoologist. Lauterborn was born in Ludwigshafen where his father was a publisher. His mother died when he was two and he was taken care of by his aunt Pauline while his father married his mother's sister. Robert went to the local school and then studied at Mannheim, leaving school in 1889 with an Abitur. He then studied zoology and botany in Heidelberg and graduated Dr. phil. nat. in 1897. He later became a professor in Karlsruhe. Lauterborn worked on river ecology and the biology of wastewater.