August F. Foerste (1862–1936) was an American geologist, science teacher, and paleontologist.

[1] He studied geology at Denison University, from which he received a bachelor's degree in 1887.

He served as an assistant for the United States Geological Survey, in Harvard, in which he studied stratigraphy and petrography of New England.

After his graduation from Harvard, he studied at the Heidelberg University and College de France for two years.

He returned to Dayton in 1893 and became a science teacher at Robert W Steele High School, a position which he kept till his retirement in 1932.