Alfred Karl Meebold (Heidenheim an der Brenz, Kingdom of Württemberg, September 29, 1863 – January 6, 1952, Havelock North, New Zealand) was a botanist, writer, and anthroposophist.
Between 1928 and 1938 he spent many months in Budapest, Hungary, where he worked at the first non-German-language Waldorf school in the world.
He was delayed in Hawaii because of World War II, and was not able to leave Honolulu until after 1945.
[1][4] Outside of Australasia, his specimens are held by the University of Munich and the Botanische Staatssammlung München.
[3][7] He was also honoured in 1924, when botanist H.Wolff published a genus of flowering plants from Central Asia, belonging to the family Apiaceae as 'Meeboldia.