Albert Julius Otto (Alberto Giulio Ottone) Penzig (1856–1929)

German botanist. DPhil., Breslau (Wrocław),1877. Lived in Italy from 1878, becoming an Italian citizen in 1882. Worked in Pavia, 1878–9, Padua, 1879–83, Modena (at the agricultural station), 1883–6. Professor of botany and director of the botanic garden, Genoa, 1887–1929. Spent six months in Java, 1896–7.