Georg Franz Hoffmann

Georg Franz Hoffmann was a German botanist and lichenologist.

He was born on 13 January 1760 in Marktbreit, Germany, and died on 17 March 1826 in Moscow, Russia.

[1] After graduating from the University of Erlangen 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 Göttingen University.

In 1787, Olof Peter Swartz (1760–1818) dedicated the genus Hoffmannia of the Rubiaceae to him.