, 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 (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. 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. He continued this work together with
Rudolph Dittrich and later R. Dittrich and
Alexander von Lingelsheim. 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, which at the time was part of
Prussia and was buried at Ślężna. == Selected publications ==