Paul Clemens was the son of a physician. He studied under
Christian Wilhelm Braune (1831–1892) and
Ernst Leberecht Wagner (1829–1888) at the
University of Leipzig, and with
Ernst Neumann (1834–1918) at the
University of Königsberg. He obtained his medical doctorate at
Leipzig in 1873, and later that year began work in the anatomical institute in Leipzig as an assistant to Braune and
Wilhelm His, Sr. (1831–1904). From 1874 to 1879, he served as
prosector at the
pathological-
anatomical institute in
Königsberg. In 1877 he earned his habilitation, and several years later became an associate professor of pathological anatomy (1881). In 1889 he was appointed professor of pathological anatomy and general
pathology at the
University of Tübingen, where his studies also included work in the field of
bacteriology. was a well-regarded, exhaustive study of
bacteriology, in which its botanical, chemical, and pathological aspects are discussed in the form of lectures. From 1885 to 1917, Baumgarten published the
Jahresberichte über die Fortschritte in der Lehre von den pathogenen Organismen, and in 1889, began publication of
Arbeiten auf dem Gebiete der pathogenen Anatomie und Bakteriologie (9 volumes). == Selected works ==