Adolf Alois Pascher (31 May 1881 – 7 May 1945) was a Bohemian botanist and phycologist, notable for his descriptions of several new genera of algae, protists, and vascular plants.
Born in Stožec, Pascher was the son of a teacher, attended the Gymnasium in Krummau and studied natural science at the German University in Prague, from which he received a doctorate in 1905, and graduated in 1909.
In 1908, in partnership with Viktor Langhans, he co-founded a Hydrobiological Laboratory in Hirschberg.
[1] He served as the editor for Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt for the last twenty years of his life.
He committed suicide on 7 May 1945, three days after the end of World War II.