biography
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Hofmeister, Wilhelm (Friedrich Benedikt)
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pronunciation:
[hohfmiyster]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1824–77)
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| biography:
| Botanist, born in Leipzig, EC Germany. Although he was completely self-taught, he was appointed professor of botany at Heidelberg (1863), and in 1872 at Tübingen. He did fundamental work on plant embryology, and pioneered the science of comparative plant morphology. |
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