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Jan 20, 1855 Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland Died on 12 May 1922 (aged 67)
German botanist
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About Hugo Conwentz
- Hugo Wilhelm Conwentz (20 January 1855, Sankt Albrecht near Danzig – 12 May 1922) was a German botanist.
- He is best known for his paleobotany studies of Baltic amber. He studied in Wroclaw and Göttingen.
- 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.
