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PAUL HENNINGS 



(with portrait) 



Professor Paul Hennings, the well-known mycologist, died after a 



short illness on October 14, 1908. 



In the botanical circles of Berlin he was a welcome and esteemed per- 

 sonage, having won the sympathy of his colleagues by his extensive learning 

 as well as by his kindly and un- 



assuming 



He was a dis- 



tinguished collector and preparator, 

 an authority on the world's fungi, 

 a faithful and conscientious official 



Museum 



humorous 



poet. 



As his personality and his whole 

 nature were made up of a multi- 

 tude of contradictions, understood 

 only by those who knew him inti- 

 mately, so the course of his de- 

 velopment also shows many con- 

 tradictions which alone give the 

 ke y to a comprehension of this 

 unusual man, who was, in the 

 best sense of the word, an original. 



Paul Hennings 



November 27, 1841, in Heide, Dithmarsischen, Holstein. He grew up in 

 Provincial surroundings, attending the gymnasium at Meldorf until circum- 

 stances compelled him in i860 to give up the scientific career to which he 

 as pired, and to leave school wh™ onlv a third-form boy. 



acknowled; 

 time direct 



Kiel 



manner 



afterward looked out for 



Urged by his older countryman, the Low-German poet Klaus Groth, 

 ^h whom he ^s always on the most friendly terms, he was matriculated 

 n &d in the winter semester of 1863-1864. The breaking-out of the war 

 * *86 4 obliged him to give up his work in Kiel, and he secured an official 



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Augustenburg 



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