Paul Sorauer

Paul Carl Moritz Sorauer (June 9, 1839 – January 9, 1916) was a German botanist and plant pathologist.

He was a professor of botany at Berlin and wrote an influential multi-volume handbook on plant diseases in 1874 which went into several editions and was also translated into English.

He then worked at the Agricultural Research Station at Dahme under Hermann Hellriegel.

In 1872 he became head of plant physiology at the Royal Pomological Institute at Proskau under Hermann Settegast.

[1] Sorauer published the Handbook of Plant Diseases in 1874 which went into three editions during his lifetime and was continued by others after as well.