Ludwig Glauert

Ludwig Glauert MBE (5 May 1879 – 1 February 1963) was a British-born Australian paleontologist, herpetologist and museum curator.

He is known for work on Pleistocene mammal fossils,[1] and as a museum curator who played an important role in natural science of Western Australia.

His father was Johann Ernst Louis Henry Glauert, merchant and cutlery manufacturer, and his mother was Amanda, née Watkinson.

In 1910 he became part of the permanent staff of the museum and in 1914 was promoted to Keeper of Geology and Ethnology.

From 1909 to 1915 he carried out fieldwork at the Margaret River caves, finding fossils of several species of extinct monotremes and marsupials in the Pleistocene limestone there.