Paul Hensel

Paul Hugo Wilhelm Hensel (17 May 1860, Groß-Barthen, Province of Prussia – 11 November 1930, Erlangen) was a German philosopher.

Hensel was born in Groß-Barten (now in Gvardeysky District) in the Province of Prussia.

Both of Hensel's paternal grandmothers and his mother were from Jewish families that had converted to Christianity.

At Erlangen, Hensel was the supervisor of Hans Reichenbach's PhD dissertation on the theory of probability.

She had two daughters with Paul Hensel: the pianist and music teacher Fanny Kistner-Hensel (1918–2006) and the historian Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel (1923–2012).