Ferdinand Albert Pax

Ferdinand Albert Pax (30 December 1885 – 11 September 1964

During the second world war, the German military force occupied Wrocław and used the Zoological Museum. To make space they threw away 3200 bird skins from the Kollibay Collection which had been purchased in 1920 for 35000 Marks. After the Soviet troops took over, the wet specimens including corals and sponges were destroyed, and the alcohol was drunk. Since methyl alcohol was used, two Red Army soldiers died in January 1945. On December 20, 1945, the Biological Station and the private home of the Pax family in the Glatzer mountains were burned down by unknown persons.

Animal taxa described by Pax include Parnassius apollo L. ssp. sztrecsnoensis Pax, 1915.

Pax married Elisabeth Nohr in 1911 and they had three sons and three daughters including Wolfgang Elpidius Pax (1912–1993) who became a linguist.