Albert Grunow (3 November 1826, Berlin – 17 March 1914, Berndorf, Lower Austria) was a German-Austrian chemist and phycologist.
In 1857-59 he participated in the Austrian "Novara Expedition", and was tasked with analysis of its algal collections.
Also, he served as a collector, preparator and determiner of specimens towards the development of Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst's diatom exsiccatae.
[1] Grunow co-edited two exsiccata series, one of them under the title Algae Ceylanicae, legit W. Ferguson, determ.
[2][3] In 1901 he donated his collection of extant and fossil diatoms to the Natural History Museum of Vienna.