Ernst Hofmann (entomologist)

Ernst Hofmann (1837 Frankfurt am Main - 1892 Stuttgart) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.

Also a zoologist, Ernst Hofmann trained as an apothecary and later became the curator of the Naturalienkabinett in Stuttgart.

His collections of Psychidae, Sesiidae, Tortricidae, Tineidae and Pterophoridae are held by Natural History Museum, London.

Others (macrolepidoptera) are held by the National Museum of Natural History in Washington.

He wrote parts of the multi-volume work Die Schmetterlinge Europas (The Lepidoptera of Europe), published in 1908.