Paul Julius Menzel
Julius Paul Menzel ( * April 27, 1864 in Dresden, † April 2, 1927 ) was a German medical officer and palaeobotanist. He published under the symbol " PJ Menzel ," his official botanical author abbreviation is " Menzel ".
Life
Paul Menzel was born in Dresden, the son of the superintendent at the Military Montierungsdepot Friedrich Julius Menzel the light of day. After studying medicine at the universities of Greifswald and Leipzig Menzel received his doctorate in Leipzig in the field of psychiatry for Dr. Menzel worked 1889-1898 as a country doctor in Hainitz at Bautzen, where he also married. The couple had three children, including the subsequent silicate chemist Heinrich Menzel.
In 1898, Menzel was working as ear, nose and throat doctor in Dresden. He was involved in the development of auxiliary points and paramedic crews of the Samaritan Association and the Red Cross in Dresden. For his dedication to him of the title Sanitätsrat was awarded in 1908. At the First World War, he voluntarily took part as the head of a hospital train and was appointed general senior physician. Menzel ill 1922 oral cancer and died as a result of disease 1927.
Work
Menzel is considered "significant [r ] Dresden palaeobotanist of the late 19th and early 20th century." Even in youth Menzel had dealt with the flora of the Lausitz and established contacts with specialists in the field of geology and botany. His teacher Hermann Engelhardt he honored after his death in 1918 with the posthumous publication of the font, the Lower Tertiary flora from Messel near Darmstadt.
In 1894, Menzel was a member of the Natural History Society " Isis " in Dresden, after he had previously been a member of the Association of Bautzen. He was also a member of the Society for Nature and medicine. From 1897 to 1898, he stood in front of the Natural Science Society Isis in Bautzen, which named him after his departure to Dresden as an honorary member. From 1912 he was head seven times the Department of Botany of the Dresden Isis.
The focus of his palaeobotanical research formed the Central European Tertiary and lignite flora, to which he has authored numerous articles in Proceedings of the Isis. He examined, among other herbal compositions in Bohemia and in Senftenberg brown coal deposits. Contemporaries he was regarded as "the first [r ] expert in his areas", so commissioned him, among other museums and the Prussian Geological Institute with the determination of sent tertiary sitings. Yet published in 1927 Publications Menzel to Altenburger finds.
Of significance is its large collection of fossil plants. After his death, the Museum of Mineralogy and Geology Dresden " 11,000 pieces from the Tertiary Formation of North Bohemia ", which made up a large part of the collection. A Blattherbarium, Menzel had applied for the determination of fossil leaf shapes, went to Berlin - Dahlem. The Senftenberg brown coal museum took over the Tertiary plant remains from central Germany and the library Menzel for Tertiary flora which contemporaries " probably the most complete compilation about this area " was considered.
The Isis honored him on the occasion of his death in 1927:
" The fact that a medical practitioner is to a non- related to his professional activity areas working as researchers that may be highlighted as something special boasting, and it is to be presumed that Menzel's name will be called as a palaeontologist long after the thousands, the have enjoyed the favors of his medical help, no longer are alive. "
Honor
Due to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Menzel was honored in 1920 with the Linnean Gold Medal. So you praised Menzel's second work for Cameroonian Tertiary flora for which Menzel since 1909 mainly material was evaluated in the possession of the Academy.