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Wilhelm Hofmeister
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Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister (18 May 1824 to 12 January 1877) was a German self-taught botanist. He studied genetics in plants, publishing several works, which were highly regarded. He is cited for the first studies of plant embryology. He was appointed professor at the University of Heidelberg in 1863, and he later moved to the University of Tübingen in 1872.
According to C. D. Darlington, Hofmeister, whom he describes as a 24 year old bookseller, had observed what would later be called Chromosomes in a dividing cell nucleus as early as 1848. He left detailed sketches which are reproduced in Darlington's The Facts of Life, though he was not the first to observe them.
Hofmeister is credited with discovery of alternation of generations as a general principle in plant morphology.
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