Georg Franz Hoffmann was a German

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and lichenologist. He was born on 13 January 1760 in

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, and died on 17 March 1826 in

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Professional career

After graduating from the

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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

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. Already a famous botanist, in particular for his work on

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s, he settled in Moscow in January 1804 and directed the Department of Botany at

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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 Olof Peter Swartz (21 September 1760 – 19 September 1818) was a Swedish botanist and taxonomist. He is best known for his taxonomic work and studies into pteridophytes, but also studied orchids, mosses and lichens. Biography Olof Swartz a ...

(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), u ...

'' of the

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to him.

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Moscow State University Botanical Server: Georg Franz Hoffmann
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