Berthold Carl Seemann

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Berthold Carl Seemann (1825–1871) was a German botanist. He travelled widely and collected and described plants from the Pacific and South America.

In 1844 he travelled to the United Kingdom to studied botany at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He was appointed naturalist on the voyage of exploration of Henry Kellett on HMS Herald, 1847–1851, along with the naturalists Thomas Edmondston, and John Goodridge.

In 1860 he travelled to Fiji and published a botanical catalogue of the flora of the islands. In the 1860s he visited South America, travelling in Venezuela in 1864 and Nicaragua from 1866 to 1867.

He edited the journal Bonplandia from 1853–1862 and the Journal of Botany, British and Foreign from 1863–1871.

The plant genus Seemannia (Gesneriaceae) is named in his honor.