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Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister. 1824-1877. Self-taught German botanist who published two groundbreaking textbooks in his field. His research distinguished flowering from nonflowering plants and demonstrated how plant generations alternate between sexual and nonsexual generations.
Mar 22, 2024 · Overview. Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister. (1824—1877) Quick Reference. (1824–1877) German botanist. Hofmeister's father, a music and book publisher from Leipzig, was also a keen amateur botanist and encouraged his son's interest in botany.
May 21, 2018 · botany. Hofmeister was the son of Friedrich Hofmeister and his second wife, the former Frederike Seidenschnur. The father was the highly successful founder of a music shop and music publishing house in Leipzig, and his home was frequented by men of the arts and sciences.
Sep 11, 2017 · While Hofmeister did not know about meiosis, or diploidy and haploidy for that matter, his work did uncover a fundamental feature of the life history of plants. Perhaps the most important aspect of this work was in demonstrating its ubiquity, not just in the ‘lower’ plants, like the mosses, but in all plants in general.
- Cyrus Martin
- 2017
Sep 11, 2017 · On January 12 th 1877, the Grim Reaper visited Wilhelm Hofmeister (Figure 1) for the last time.Having recently witnessed the death of a wife, two daughters, and two sons (only two of his nine children survived him), the German botanist, perhaps succumbing to the weight of his own grief, suffered a series of strokes and then promptly died at the age of 52 in Lindenau, Germany.
- Cyrus Martin
- 2017
GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES. WILHELM FRIEDRICH BENEDICT HOFMEISTER (1824-1877), German botanist, was born at Leipzig on the 18th of May 1824. He came of a family engaged in trade, and after being educated at the Realschule of Leipzig he entered business as a music-dealer.
Oct 24, 2013 · Hofmeister was the first individual to systematically study the effects of salts on protein stability and solubility [ 27]. He is the father of what is presently known as the Hofmeister lyotropic salt series, which ranks the relative influence of ions on the physical behaviour of proteins [ 28].
