{{Short description|German botanist and university teacher (1858–1942)}} {{For|the zoologist son|Ferdinand Albert Pax}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Ferdinand Albin Pax | birth_date = {{birth date|1858|07|26}} | birth_place = Dvůr Králové nad Labem, Bohemia | death_date = {{death date and age|1942|03|01|1858|07|26}} | death_place = Wrocław, Prussia | fields = Botany (spermatophytes), cecidology | workplaces = University of Wrocław<br>University of Kiel | alma_mater = University of Wrocław | doctoral_advisor = Heinrich Göppert | academic_advisors = Adolf Engler | known_for = | spouse = | children = Ferdinand Albert Pax | father = | mother = }} thumb '''Ferdinand Albin Pax''' (26 July 1858 – 1 March 1942) 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 (1885–1964) was a noted zoologist.
==Life and work == [[File:Gradina Botanica IV.jpg|thumb|200px|Fountain dedicated to Ferdinand Pax in the Botanical Garden of Cluj-Napoca, Romania]] 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 Žacléř, and Elisabeth Haas (<abbr>died</abbr> 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.''<ref name="biog">{{cite book|url=https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz94305.html|title=New German Biography|author=Hoppe, Brigitte|year=2001|volume=20|page=144|language=de|chapter=Pax, Ferdinand}}</ref> Together with Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus he worked also in the field of cecidology (studying plant galls) and started the exsiccata series ''Herbarium cecidiologicum'' in 1892.<ref>{{cite web |title=Herbarium cecidiologicum: IndExs ExsiccataID=498623360 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=498623360 |access-date=1 June 2024}}</ref> He continued this work together with Rudolph Dittrich and later R. Dittrich and Alexander von Lingelsheim.<ref>{{cite web |title=Herbarium cecidiologicum: IndExs ExsiccataID=1814913535 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1814913535 |access-date=18 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Herbarium cecidiologicum: IndExs ExsiccataID=1942923903 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=1942923903 |access-date=18 October 2024}}</ref>
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 Wrocław,<ref>Mularczyk Magdalena: ''Prof. Ferdinand Pax (1858–1942)'', in: "Przyroda Górnego Śląska" nr 5/96 autumn, pp. 12–13 (in polish)</ref> which at the time was part of Prussia and was buried at Ślężna.
== Selected publications == The following are just two among numerous papers and monographs. He was one of the most prolific collaborators of Adolf Engler. A more complete list can be found in Stafleu & Cowan (1983). He described a number of plant species. * {{cite book|last1=Pax|first1=Ferdinand Albin|author-link=Ferdinand Pax|pages=318–337|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/669#page/327/mode/1up|language=la, de|title=Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Amaryllidaceae |year=1890 |volume=11 |ref={{harvid|Pax|1890}}}}, in {{harvtxt|Engler|1890}} * {{cite book|last1=Pax|first1=Ferdinand|author-link=Ferdinand Pax|title=Amaryllidaceae|date=1887 |volume=Teil 2, Abt. 1-6 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/56456#page/759/mode/1up|pages=97–124|ref={{harvid|Pax|1888}}}}, in {{harvtxt|Engler|Prantl|1888}}
Plant genera that have been named after Pax include ''Neopaxia'', ''Paxia'', ''Paxiodendron'', ''Paxina'' and ''Paxiuscula''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/taxonomicliterat41983staf|pages=[https://archive.org/details/taxonomicliterat41983staf/page/119 119]–122|title=Taxonomic literature. Volume IV: P-Sak|author1=Stafleu, Frans A.| author2=Cowan, Richard S.|edition=2|year=1983|publisher=Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema|isbn=9789031302246 |place=Utrecht}}</ref>
Taxa named by him (along with others like Engler) include ''Acalypha'', ''Acidoton'', ''Adenochlaena'', ''Annesijoa novoguineensis'', ''Argomuellera'', ''Blachia'', ''Cephalocrotonopsis'', ''Chonocentrum'', ''Cladogynos orientalis'', ''Cleistanthus'', ''Conceveiba'', ''Crotonogynopsis'', ''Deuteromallotus'', ''Discoclaoxylon'', ''Emblingiaceae'', ''Erythrococca'', ''Haematostemon'', ''Hippeastrum'',{{sfn|Pax|1890}} ''Jatropha'', ''Lingelsheimia'', ''Mareyopsis'', ''Mildbraedia'', ''Monadenium'', ''Necepsia'', ''Neoscortechinia'', ''Neotrewia cumingii'', ''Octospermum pleiogynum'', ''Pachystylidium hirsutum'', ''Petalodiscus'', ''Plukenetia'', ''Pseudagrostistachys'', ''Pseudolachnostylis maprouneifolia'', ''Ptychopyxis'', ''Romanoa'', ''Sphaerostylis'', ''Tetraplandra'', ''Thecacoris'', and ''Zimmermannia''.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Engler|editor1-first=Adolf|editor-link=Adolf Engler|title=Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/659|date=1890|volume=11|publisher=Engelmann|location=Leipzig}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Engler|editor1-first=Adolf|editor2-last=Prantl|editor2-first=Karl|editor-link1=Adolf Engler|editor-link2=Karl Anton Prantl|title=Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien nebst ihren Gattungen und wichtigeren Arten, insbesondere den Nutzpflanzen, unter Mitwirkung zahlreicher hervorragender Fachgelehrten 1887–1915 II(5)|date=1888|publisher=W. Engelmann|location=Leipzig|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/4635#/summary|access-date=6 April 2015|language=de}}</ref>
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== External links == * [http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?mode=details&id=19927 Index of Botanists – Pax, Ferdinand Albin] from the Harvard University Herbaria
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