Education
He studied in Wrocław and Göttingen.
Botanist non-fiction writer paleontologist
He studied in Wrocław and Göttingen.
He is best known for his paleobotany studies of Baltic amber. 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 (West Prussian Provincial Museum) 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.
Academy of Useful Science. German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.