Ferdinand Albin Pax

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).

[1] 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.

[3][4] He was married to Marie Serbin and they had a son Ferdinand Albert Pax, who became a zoologist and specialist on corals.

Plant genera that have been named after Pax include Neopaxia, Paxia, Paxiodendron, Paxina and Paxiuscula.

[6] Taxa named by him (along with others like Engler) include Acalypha, Acidoton, Adenochlaena, Annesijoa novoguineensis, Argomuellera, Blachia, Cephalocrotonopsis, Chonocentrum, Cladogynos orientalis, Cleistanthus, Conceveiba, Crotonogynopsis, Deuteromallotus, Discoclaoxylon, Emblingiaceae, Erythrococca, Haematostemon, Hippeastrum,[7] Jatropha, Lingelsheimia, Mareyopsis, Mildbraedia, Monadenium, Necepsia, Neoscortechinia, Neotrewia cumingii, Octospermum pleiogynum, Pachystylidium hirsutum, Petalodiscus, Plukenetia, Pseudagrostistachys, Pseudolachnostylis maprouneifolia, Ptychopyxis, Romanoa, Sphaerostylis, Tetraplandra, Thecacoris, and Zimmermannia.