page_title: Ferdinand Albin Pax
section_title: Life and work
hierarchical_section_title: Ferdinand Albin Pax / Life and work
caption_attribution_description: Română: Fântâna Ferdinand Pax din Grădina Botanică din Cluj Napoca This is a photo of a historic monument in județul Cluj, classified with number CJ-II-a-B-07455
context_page_description: Ferdinand Albin Pax was a German botanist specializing in spermatophytes. A collaborator of Adolf Engler, he wrote several monographs and described several species of plants and animals from Silesia and the Carpathians. He was a professor at Wrocław University from 1893. His son Ferdinand Albert Pax was a noted zoologist.
context_section_description: Pax was born on 26 July 1858 in Dvůr Králové nad Labem, in what was then known as Bohemia to Carl Ferdinand, a mine superintendent in Schatzlar, and Elisabeth Haas (died 1861).  He graduated from the Kamienna Góra gymnasium and joined the University of Wrocław.  He received a PhD in 1882 studying under Heinrich Göppert and moved to Kiel and habilitated in 1886 for studies on the Cyperaceae. He served as an assistant at the Botanical Garden and moved to Berlin in 1889 where he worked with Adolf Engler. In 1893 he became the chair of botany at Wrocław. He became a professor of botany and zoology at the University of Wrocław. Pax was a specialist on the plants in the families Primulaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Aceraceae.
  
  He was married to Marie Serbin and they had a son Ferdinand Albert Pax, who became a zoologist and specialist on corals. Pax died on 1 March 1942 in Wroclaw, which at the time was part of Prussia and was buried at Ślężna.
caption: Fountain dedicated to Ferdinand Pax in the Botanical Garden of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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