Paul Julius Menzel


Paul Julius Menzel 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 1898 onward, he lived and worked in Dresden.
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.

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