Walther Stötzner

Walther Stötzner (13 April 1882 – 12 October 1965) was a German explorer, collector, naturalist, ethnographer and writer.

After the death of his father the family moved to Dresden and after attending grammar school he went to Zittau before going to the Technical University of Munich.

In 1913 he led an expedition into east Asia with a much larger team that included geographer Gottlob Otto Israel, botanist Hans Limpricht and zoologist Hugo Weigold.

He sought to live and study the cultures of the Tungusen, Manchurians and ancient tribes in Korea.

An account of his Manchurian journey, Malaria, Gold und Opium, was written by Frithjof Melzer (1929).