Bernhard Auerswald
German botanist and mycologist (1818–1870)
Bernhard Auerswald (1818–1870) was a German mycologist and professor from Leipzig. He participated as chief correspondent of botany, sending specimens that his colleague Heinrich Moritz Willkomm collected and sent to him from his expeditions.
The abbreviation Auersw. is used when citing Auerswald as the author in scientific classification of vegetables.