16 Facts About Wilhelm Hofmeister

Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister was a German biologist and botanist.

Wilhelm Hofmeister's father was a book and music publisher and seller in Leipzig.

Wilhelm Hofmeister left vocational high school at the age of 15 and was apprenticed in a bookshop in Hamburg by an acquaintance of his father.

Wilhelm Hofmeister met Muriel Agnes Lurgenstein and they married in 1847, subsequently having nine children.

Wilhelm Hofmeister did most of his research in his free-time, largely from four to six in the morning before going to work.

Wilhelm Hofmeister was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Rostock in 1851.

Wilhelm Hofmeister is widely credited with discovery of alternation of generations as a general principle in plant life.

Wilhelm Hofmeister showed that products from both the pollen tube and egg were required.

Wilhelm Hofmeister was an early student of the genetics in plants.

Wilhelm Hofmeister is cited for the first studies of plant embryology.

Darlington, Wilhelm Hofmeister had observed what would later be called chromosomes in a dividing cell nucleus as early as 1848.

Wilhelm Hofmeister left detailed sketches which are reproduced in Darlington's The Facts of Life, though he was not the first to observe them.

Wilhelm Hofmeister's books Die Lehre von der Pflanzenzelle and Allgemeine Morphologie der Gewachse were about plant cells and morphology.

Wilhelm Hofmeister observed that plant cells expand and then divide with a new wall laid down in the centre of the cell.

Wilhelm Hofmeister thus identified a fundamental difference between development in plants and animals since animal cells have to migrate as organs develop.

Wilhelm Hofmeister carried out experiments to measure the forces and tensions involved as plant stems bend.