Joseph Schröter

Joseph Schröter (14 March 1837 – 12 December 1894)[1] was a German mycologist and medical doctor.

He also spent around fifteen years, from 1871 to 1886, as a military doctor, particularly in the Franco-Prussian War, in places such as Spandau, Rastatt and Breslau, and rising to the rank of colonel.

In 1855 Schröter chose to study medicine in Breslau, Lower Silesia (Wrocław, Poland since 1945),[3] but in 1856, he transferred to the Friedrich-Wilhelm Academy in Berlin, Prussia (Germany did not unite into a single nation state until 1871).

In the same year, he enlisted in the Prussian army, serving as a doctor in the Franco-Prussian war.

[2] For his efforts as a doctor, as well as the various other contributions he made to the military (particularly during the Franco-Prussian War), Schröter was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1880.