Paul Julius Menzel Explained

Paul Julius Menzel (27 April 1864 in Dresden – 2 April 1927) was a German physician and paleobotanist.

In 1889 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Greifswald, afterwards working as a physician in Hainitz Grosspostwitz (from 1889 to 1898). From 1898 onward, he lived and worked in Dresden.^[1]

Known for his close association with the Senckenberg museum; after his death, the museum bought a large part of his fossil plant collection - approximately 11,000 items from the Tertiary formation of northern Bohemia.^[2]

Selected works

• Fossile koniferen aus der kreide-und braunkohlenformation Nordböhmens, 1908 – Fossil conifers from the chalk and lignite formations of northern Bohemia.
• Beitrag zur Flora der Niederrheineschen Braunkohlenformation, 1913 – Contribution to the flora of the Lower Rhine lignite formation.
• Beitrag Zur Kenntnis Der Tertiärflora Aus Dem Gebiete Des Vierwaldstätter Sees (with Ernst Baumberger) – Contribution to the knowledge of Tertiary flora from areas of Lake Lucerne.
• Über Pflanzenreste aus Basalttuffen des Kamerungebietes, 1920 – On plant residue from basaltic tuff of the Kamerun region.^[3]

Notes and References

1. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33355504#page/433/mode/1up Biodiversity Heritage Library
2. http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=16727&PHPSESSID=vtv0t8b86s0guccac05oea0joklvr41d Senckenberg Natural History Collections
3. https://books.google.com/books/about/Beitrag_zur_Flora_der_Niederrheineschen.html?id=bRU0AQAAMAAJ Google Books