Walter Forster (12 July 1910 – 25 December 1986) was a German

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. He worked at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (''

Zoologische Staatssammlung München The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology (german: Zoologische Staatssammlung München) or ZSM is a major German research institution for zoological systematics in Munich. It has over 20 million zoological specimens. It is one of the largest natur ...

'') and led two scientific collecting trips to South America.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011)
The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . ("Forster", p. 93). Forster is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of South American lizard, '' Liolaemus forsteri''.

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German entomologists 1910 births 1986 deaths 20th-century German zoologists {{Germany-zoologist-stub