Paul Johannes Brühl

Paul Johannes Brühl (25 February 1855 – 7 September 1935) was a German-origin professor of botany who worked in India, mainly at the Presidency College, Calcutta.

He married Annie Betts Fox in 1883 and through the influence of Sir George King, he joined the Bengal Engineering College in 1887 where he taught chemistry, geology, and agriculture.

In 1913 he was invited by Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee to serve as registrar for Calcutta University which he found very unpleasant.

He worked on control of the water hyacinth and examined cryptogams, mosses, orchids, invasive plants, and published along with Sir George King and other botanists.

[1] His library of German physics books including those by Maxwell, Boltzmann and Planck were made available to D. M. Bose and Meghnad Saha in Calcutta.