Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach

{{Short description|German explorer and botanist}}

Carl Adolf Georg Lauterbach (21 April 1864 in Breslau – 1 September 1937 in Breslau) was a German explorer and botanist.

He studied natural sciences and agriculture at the Universities of Breslau and Heidelberg, obtaining his doctorate at the latter institution in 1888. Within the next twelve years he participated in three exploratory expeditions (1889, 1896 and 1899–1900) to Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (part of German New Guinea). On the two later expeditions, he explored the Bismarck Mountains, located in the island's interior. On the third mission (1899–1900) he was made director of the Neu-Guinea Compagnie.{{Cite web |title=Lauterbach, Carl Adolf Georg (1864-1937) on JSTOR |url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.person.bm000152309 |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=plants.jstor.org}}[http://www.nationaalherbarium.nl/fmcollectors/L/LauterbachCAG.htm Nationaal Herbarium Nederland] biography Some of the specimens that he collected were further examined by Viktor Ferdinand Brotherus and Paul Christoph Hennings.

At his estate in Stabelwitz, outside of Breslau (part of Breslau since 1928), he maintained an impressive plant nursery and arboretum.{{Cite web |last=Biographie |first=Deutsche |title=Lauterbach, Carl - Deutsche Biographie |url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz48540.html |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=www.deutsche-biographie.de |language=de}}

He is commemorated with the genera Lauterbachia (family Monimiaceae),{{cite web |title=Lauterbachia Perkins {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:27088-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=27 May 2021 |language=en}} and Lauterbachiella (in the fungi family of Parmulariaceae). Which is now a synonym of Rhagadolobium {{small|P.Henn. & Lind}}.{{cite web |title=Lauterbachiella P.C.Hennings, 1898 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2625487 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=6 June 2022 |language=en}} Also Clarorivinia (in the Euphorbiaceae family), which was named after his first name, is now a synonym of Ptychopyxis.{{cite web |title=Ptychopyxis Miq. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:15833-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=6 June 2022 |language=en}} The genus Gertrudia (formerly of the family Flacourtiaceae) was named after Lauterbach's wife, Gertrud Fuchs-Henel. It is now a synonym for Ryparosa.{{cite journal |last1=Mildbraed |first1=J. |title=Gertrudia K. Schum. = Ryparosa Bl. |journal=Notizblatt des Königlichen botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin |year=1928 |volume=10 |issue=94 |pages=338–340 |doi=10.2307/3994788|jstor=3994788 |s2cid=90610315 }} In 1897 Anton Reichenow named the yellow-breasted bowerbird (Chlamydera lauterbachi) in his honor.