Hermann Maximilian Carl Ludwig Friedrich (Hermann) zu Solms-Laubach, Graf zu Solms-Laubach (1842–1915)

German botanist. Studied botany at Gießen, Freiburg, and Berlin; doctorate, Berlin, 1865. Habilitated at Halle, 1868. Professor of botany and director of the botanic gardens, Göttingen, 1879; Berlin, 1887, Straßburg (Strasbourg), 1888–1907. Worked mainly on the morphology and systematics of parasitic angiosperms, the history of cultivated plants, palaeobotany, and phylogeny.