Augusto Weberbauer (birth name "August" – Breslau, 26 November 1871 – died in

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, 1948) was a German naturalist, botanist and university professor. He conducted systematic exploration of Peru in search of new plant species. Weberbauer received his PhD in botany at the

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(1894), continued his studies in natural sciences at universities in Heidelberg and Berlin. He taught at the University of Breslau. He was commissioned by the Royal Academy of Sciences in

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to develop botanical research in Peru (1901). In 1905, he delivered 5200 species of seagrass which he had collected in Peru. The Peruvian government hired him to develop the Zoo and Botanical Garden in 1908. He received the degree of Doctor of Science at the

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in 1922. He taught here as professor of pharmaceutical chemistry (1923–48) and Systematic Botany (1925–48), as well as directing the Botany Seminar (1935–1948). The wild potato species, ''S. neoweberbaueri'', collected by Weberbauer on Morro Solar, was named by

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in 1914. He taught at the Deutsche Schule Lima Alexander von Humboldt.Novak, Fabián. ''Las relaciones entre el Perú y Alemania, 1828-2003'' (Serie Política exterior peruana). Fondo Editorial PUCP, 2004. , 9789972426346. p
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