German botanist and dentist. Anton Schindler was born in Bremen and studied at Göttingen and Halle in the early 1900s. In 1905 he left Germany for a teaching post at the University of Peking. He also taught in Shanghai, meanwhile studying the Chinese flora and collecting plants. Schindler returned to Germany five years later, where he began to publish papers on genera in the Leguminosae. He worked in Posen, supervising students of botany, until 1925. He published a significant work dealing with the Desmodiinae in 1928, which was primarily bibliographic. At this time Schindler decided to leave the field of botany and qualified as a dentist, commencing practice in 1929 near Kassel. He later moved close to Berlin and worked as a dentist until 1956, before retiring to Düsseldorf.

Sources:
B.G. Schubert, 1964, "Anton K. Schindler", Taxon, 13(1): 7-10.