Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler

Friedrich Gottlieb Stebler (11 August 1852 in Safnern – 7 April 1935) was a Swiss agriculturalist and ethnographer.

In 1875, he founded a private Samen-Kontrollstation (seed control station) in Mattenhof bei Bern.

In 1876 he gained his venia legendi at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETH Zurich), where he taught classes in agricultural-related subjects until 1901.

From 1888 to 1899 he issued the exsiccata series Schweizerische Gräser-Sammlung, first with Carl Joseph Schröter and later with Albert Volkert.

[2] As his career progressed, he developed an interest in ethnography, making frequent visits to Valais in order to study the lives and customs of its population.