Paul Friedrich Reinsch (21 March 1836, in

Kirchenlamitz Kirchenlamitz () is a town in the district of Wunsiedel, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Fichtelgebirge, 13 km northwest of Wunsiedel (; Northern Bavarian: ''Wåuṉsieḏl'' or ''Wousigl'') is the seat of the Upper Franconia ...

– 31 January 1914, in

Erlangen Erlangen (; East Franconian German, East Franconian: ''Erlang'', Bavarian language, Bavarian: ''Erlanga'') is a Middle Franconian city in Bavaria, Germany. It is the seat of the administrative district Erlangen-Höchstadt (former administrative d ...

) was a German phycologist and

paleontologist Paleontology (), also spelled palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossi ...

Biography

He studied natural sciences in

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and Erlangen, afterwards working as a high school teacher in Erlangen,

Zweibrücken Zweibrücken (; french: Deux-Ponts, ; Palatinate German: ''Zweebrigge'', ; literally translated as "Two Bridges") is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river. Name The name ''Zweibrücken'' means 'two bridges'; olde ...

and

Baselland Basel-Landschaft or Basel-Country informally known as Baselland or Baselbiet (; german: Kanton Basel-Landschaft ; rm, Chantun Basilea-Champagna; french: Canton de Bâle-Campagne; it, Canton Basilea Campagna), is one of the 26 cantons forming ...

. Following retirement, he settled in Erlangen as a private scholar.BHL
Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications During his tenure in Baselland, he collected

moss Mosses are small, non-vascular flowerless plants in the taxonomic division Bryophyta (, ) '' sensu stricto''. Bryophyta (''sensu lato'', Schimp. 1879) may also refer to the parent group bryophytes, which comprise liverworts, mosses, and hor ...

es, being inspired by the work of

Wilhelm Philippe Schimper Wilhelm Philippe Schimper (January 12, 1808 – March 20, 1880, in Lichtenberg) was an Alsatian botanist with French, later German citizenship. He was born in Dossenheim-sur-Zinsel, but spent his youth in Offwiller, a village at the foot of t ...

and

Philipp Bruch Philipp Bruch (February 11, 1781 – February 11, 1847) was a German pharmacist and bryologist born in Zweibrücken. His father, Johann Christian Bruch was also a pharmacist. He initially worked at a pharmacy in Mainz, and afterwards studied in M ...

. In his scientific travels, he spent two years in

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and considerable time in

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. In the last 20 years of his life, he focused his energy towards research of fossil

Foraminifera Foraminifera (; Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of amoeboid protists characterized by streaming granular Ectoplasm (cell biology), ectoplasm for catching food and ot ...

Commemorations

* ''Reinschia'', a fossilised

algae Algae (; singular alga ) is an informal term for a large and diverse group of photosynthetic eukaryotic organisms. It is a polyphyletic grouping that includes species from multiple distinct clades. Included organisms range from unicellular mic ...

genus described by

Charles Eugène Bertrand Charles Eugène Bertrand (2 January 1851, in Paris – 18 August 1917) was a French botanist, paleobotanist and geologist. He is remembered for his research involving the formation of coal. He studied sciences in Paris, where he had as influences b ...

and Bernard Renault, 1893. * '' Reinschiella'', algae genus described by

Giovanni Battista de Toni Giovanni Battista de Toni (2 January 1864, Venice – 31 July 1924, Modena) was an Italian botanist, mycologist and phycologist. In 1885 he graduated from the University of Padua, where he studied natural sciences and chemistry with Pier Andre ...

, 1889.

Selected works

* "Algae and Related Subjects: - Collected Works", 1866. * ''Die Algenflora Des Mittleren Theiles Von Franken'', 1867 – On algae of

Middle Franconia Middle Franconia (german: Mittelfranken, ) is one of the three administrative regions of Franconia in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in the west of Bavaria and borders the state of Baden-Württemberg. The administrative seat is Ansbach; however, ...

. * "Contributiones ad algologiam et fungologiam", Volume 1, 1874. * ''Neue Untersuchungen über die Mikrostruktur der Steinkohle des Carbon'', 1881. * "The Composition and Microscopical Structure of Coal", Victoria Institute (Great Britain). * "Micro-Palaeophytologia Formationis Carboniferae", 1884. * ''Zur Meeresalgenflora von Süd-Georgien'', 1890 – On

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Reinsch, Paul Friedrich 1836 births 1914 deaths People from Wunsiedel (district) People from the Kingdom of Bavaria 19th-century German botanists German phycologists German paleontologists