Augusto Weberbauer

Augusto Weberbauer (birth name "August" – Breslau, 26 November 1871 – died in Lima, 1948) was a German naturalist, botanist and university professor.

He was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin to develop botanical research in Peru (1901).

He received the degree of Doctor of Science at the National University of San Marcos in 1922.

The wild potato species, S. neoweberbaueri, collected by Weberbauer on Morro Solar, was named by Ludwig Wittmack in 1914.

[1] He taught at the Deutsche Schule Lima Alexander von Humboldt.