Erna Walter

Erna Walter (11 August 1893 in Bonn – 2 January 1992) was a German botanist, ecologist, botanical collector and bryologist.

[1] The daughter of botanist Heinrich Schenck, Erna studied botany, physics and chemistry in Darmstadt and Heidelberg.

She received her doctorate in 1918 under the direction of botanist Georg Albrecht Klebs at the University of Heidelberg.

The couple endeavored to "personally investigate each floral kingdom and climatic zone in the world to obtain comparative material on a global scale.

[1] Walter's plant finds are kept in the Munich Herbarium and include, among others, mosses and lichens from Argentina, Australia, Chile, Germany, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia, Canada, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, Austria, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, from the British Isles and Venezuela.