August Friedrich Gustav Werther (1 August 1815, Roßla – 29 June 1869, Königsberg) was a German chemist.
[1] In 1843, Werther obtained his doctorate in Berlin, where he served as an amanuensis to Eilhard Mitscherlich.
Werther was a chemistry instructor at the artillery and engineering school in Berlin.
In 1853, Werther became an associate professor at the University of Königsberg, where in 1859 he was appointed a full professor of chemistry.
[1][2] From 1853 onward, he was an editor of Otto Linné Erdmann's Journal für practische Chemie.