Friedrich Carl Albert (Friedrich) Ketter (1842–1913)

German teacher and entomologist. Private tutor in Livonia, then studied mathematics at Greifswald and Berlin. After receiving his teaching qualification (Facultas Docendi), assistant teacher in Dramburg, 1869. Teacher, Putbus, 1873; senior teacher, 1886; professor, 1893–1907. Member, Imperial Leopoldina-Carolina German Academy of Naturalists, 1880. Founder and editor, Entomologische Nachrichten, 1875–84; author of a zoology textbook. Published two monographs on European species of the genus Meloe (oil beetles).