Henryk Bronislaw Stenzel (born 7 February 1899 in Pabianice, dead 5 September 1980 in Houston), was an American paleontologist of Polish and Jewish descent. [1]
Born Henryk Sztencel, he studied at the University of Breslau, where the administration forced him to change the spelling of his name. [2] [3] In 1922 he got a doctoral degree on the basis of a thesis prepared under Hans Cloos. In 1925 he emigated to the USA, where in 1929 he married Elsie née Brodbeck. [4] He worked on Texas A&M University (then Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas), University of Texas at Austin, [5] University of Houston, Rice University, and Louisiana State University. [2] He retired in 1977 because of health issues; [4] he died after a long illness. [2]
In the USA Stenzel worked mainly on Tertiary paleontology, including speciation in fossil bivalves. [7] He described several new taxa of fossil bivalves. [8] His main achievement is a complete taxonomic revision of fossil oysters, published as a separate volume of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (volume N-3, 1971). [9]
Stenzelia MacNeil, 1954, [10] a genus (or subgenus) of Eocene bivalves, Stenzeloceras Whetstone & Teichert, 1978, a genus of Cretaceous nautiloids, and a few species [8] have been named in his honor.
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