Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister
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. His first published handbook was on plant physiology. His other textbook became the first general work describing how plant tissues and organs are formed and differentiated. He is considered a pioneer of comparative plant morphology.
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