Alfred Voeltzkow (14 April 1860 – February 1947) was a German zoologist and botanist from Berlin, Brandenburg.
He obtained his habilitation at the University of Strasbourg,[1] and in 1900 became a member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina.
[2] Voeltzkow is remembered for his scientific journeys in eastern Africa and islands of the Western Indian Ocean; (Comoros, Madagascar, Juan de Nova and Aldabra).
On these expeditions, Voeltzkow collected zoological specimens of numerous genera for study and classification.
[4] In 1908 Paul Christoph Hennings named the fungus genus Voeltzkowiella (family Bulgariaceae) in his honor.