Georg Franz Hoffmann

Short description: German botanist (1760-1826)

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]

## Contents

* 1 Professional career
* 2 Works
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Professional career

After graduating from the University of Erlangen 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. 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,[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.

The standard author abbreviation Hoffm. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name.[2]

## See also

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kärnefelt, Ingvar (2012). "Lichenology in Germany: Past, Present and Future". Schlechtendalia 23: 5.
2. ↑ IPNI, Hoffm., http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=Hoffm.

## External links

* Moscow State University Botanical Server: Georg Franz Hoffmann

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