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Wilhelm Hofmeister

1824 - 1877

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Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (18 May 1824 – 12 January 1877) was a German biologist and botanist. He "stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel." Largely self-taught he was the first to study and establish alternation of generations and the details of sexual reproduction in the bryophytes. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wilhelm Hofmeister is the 653rd most popular biologist (down from 522nd in 2019), the 3,914th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,710th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular German Biologist.

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Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 653 out of 1,097. Before him are Ignaz Schiffermüller, Karl Hugo Strunz, Anders Dahl, Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer, José Antonio Pavón Jiménez, and Charles Frédéric Girard. After him are James Francis Stephens, Leonhard Stejneger, Sabiha Kasimati, Jacob Sturm, Pál Kitaibel, and Ferdinand Albin Pax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 56. Before him are Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Antonio Ghislanzoni, Juliusz Kossak, Alexander William Williamson, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, and Alexey Bogolyubov. After him are Víctor Balaguer i Cirera, Ōmura Masujirō, Ambrose Burnside, Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart, Theodor von Heuglin, and Duke Georg August of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Among people deceased in 1877, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 47. Before him are Fernán Caballero, Joseph Bienaimé Caventou, Nikolay Ogarev, Alexander Bain, Julius Rietz, and Duke Eugen of Württemberg. After him are Johann Carl Fuhlrott, Janko Matúška, Robert Swinhoe, Georg Adolf Erman, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, and Karel Sabina.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 3,916 out of 7,253. Before him are Werner Klemperer (1920), Christian August Friedrich Peters (1806), Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg (1923), Rudi Fischer (1912), Gabriel Biel (1418), and Joshua Kimmich (1995). After him are Albert Brülls (1937), Detlev von Liliencron (1844), Johann von Werth (1591), Ulrich Biesinger (1933), Werner Voss (1897), and Leonhard Frank (1882).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In Germany

Among biologists born in Germany, Wilhelm Hofmeister ranks 132. Before him are Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786), Caspar Georg Carl Reinwardt (1773), Johann Julius Walbaum (1724), Georg Dionysius Ehret (1708), Karl Hugo Strunz (1910), and Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer (1782). After him are Jacob Sturm (1771), Archibald Reiss (1875), Wilhelm Pfeffer (1845), Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling (1798), Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852), and Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809).

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