page_title: Hugo Conwentz
section_title: Selected works
hierarchical_section_title: Hugo Conwentz / Selected works
caption_attribution_description: English: Hugo Conwentz memorial stone located in nature reserve Plagefenn, Brandenburg, Germany Deutsch: Der Conwentzstein im Naturschutzgebiet Plagefenn bei Chorin (Brandenburg) zur Erinnerung an Hugo Conwentz
context_page_description: Hugo Wilhelm Conwentz was a German botanist. He is best known for his paleobotany studies of Baltic amber.
  He studied in Wrocław and Göttingen. Beginning in 1876 he conducted paleobotanical studies as an assistant to Heinrich Göppert in Breslau. In 1879 he was appointed director of the Westpreußischen Provinzialmuseums in Danzig, a position he held for thirty years. In 1906 he became state commissioner of the newly founded Staatliche Stelle für Naturdenkmalpflege in Preußen, a regulatory body for natural heritage conservation in Prussia.
context_section_description: Monographie der baltischen bernsteinbäume, 1890 – Monograph of Baltic amber trees.
  Untersuchungen über fossile hölzer Schwedens, 1892 – Studies of fossil woods of Sweden.
  Die Gefährdung der Naturdenkmäler und Vorschläge zu ihrer Erhaltung, 1904 – The threat to natural monuments and proposals for their preservation.
  Beiträge zur Naturdenkmalpflege, (editor) 1910 – Contributions to natural heritage conservation.
caption: Hugo Conwentz memorial stone located in the Plagefenn nature reserve, Brandenburg, Germany.
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