Georg Franz Hoffmann
Georg Franz Hoffmann was a German botanist and lichenologist. He was born on 13 January 1760 in Marktbreit, Germany, and died on 17 March 1826 in Moscow, Russia.[1]
Professional career
After graduating from the
University of Moscow,[1]
as well as the Botanical garden.
Works
- Descriptio et adumbratio plantarum e classe cryptogámica Linnaei qua lichenes dicuntur... (1789-1801)
- Vegetabilia cryptogama. (1790, Erlangen)
- Nomenclator Fungorum. (1789-1790, two volumes, Berlin)
- Historia salicum, iconibus illustrata. (1785-1787, Leipzig)
- Deutschlands Flora, oder, Botanisches Taschenbuch (1791, 1795, 1800, and 1804, Erlangen)
- Enumeratio plantarum et seminum hort botanici mosquensis. (1808, Moscow)
- Genera Plantarum Umbelliferarum (1814, 1816, Moscow)
- Herbarium vivum, sive collectio plantarum siccarun, Caesareae Universitatis Mosquensis. Pars secunda, continents . . . (1825)
In 1787,
Olof Peter Swartz (1760–1818) dedicated the genus Hoffmannia of the Rubiaceae
to him.
See also
References
- ^ a b Kärnefelt, Ingvar (2012). "Lichenology in Germany: Past, Present and Future". Schlechtendalia. 23: 5.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Hoffm.