Ernst Pringsheim Jr.


Ernst Pringsheim Jr. or Ernst Georg Pringsheim was a German natural scientist and plant physiology.
He taught as a professor for biochemistry and botany, in the University of Berlin, University of Prague, and Cambridge University.

Life

He was a son of Hugo Pringsheim, and Hedwig Johanna Heymann.

Personal

In 1907 he married Lily Chun ; they divorced in 1921, having had five children. He married pharmacist Olga Zimmermann in Prague in 1929. Their son Wolfgang Pringsheim was a pioneer of neonatology in Freiburg im Breisgau.