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Georg Franz Hoffmann was a German
botanist
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and
lichenologist. He was born on 13 January 1760 in
Marktbreit
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,
Germany
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, and died on 17 March 1826 in
Moscow
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,
Russia
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.
Professional career
After graduating from the
University of Erlangen
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in 1786, he worked there between 1787 and 1792 as a professor of botany. Between 1792 and 1803 he was Head of the Botany Department and Director of the Botanical Garden of
Göttingen University
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General information
The o ...
. Already a famous botanist, in particular for his work on
lichens, he settled in Moscow in January 1804 and directed the Department of Botany at
University of Moscow
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,
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
''Hoffmannia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are distributed in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
There are about 100 species.Castillo-Campos, G., et al. (2013)''Hoffmannia arqueonervosa'' (Rubiaceae), un ...
'' of the
Rubiaceae
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to him.
See also
*
:Taxa named by Georg Franz Hoffmann
References and external links
Moscow State University Botanical Server: Georg Franz Hoffmann
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German lichenologists
Pteridologists
1760 births
1826 deaths
19th-century botanists from the Russian Empire
People from Marktbreit
18th-century German botanists
19th-century German botanists
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg faculty