Werner Hoffmeister
He accompanied his childhood friend,[1] Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar of Prussia, (2 August 1817 – 17 February 1849), son of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851), as a personal physician on an expedition 1845-46 to India and was fatally hit by a bullet in a skirmish with the Sikhs.
The botanists Johann Friedrich Klotzsch and Christian August Friedrich Garcke were assigned to examine and describe the material collected in India, a task which they completed in 1853, and published in 2 volumes in Berlin as Die Botanischen Ergebnisse der Reise seiner königl.
Hoheit des Prinzen Waldemar von Preussen in den Jahren 1845 und 1846.
He continued his studies in Bonn and went on trips to the Rhine Valley, the Netherlands, southern France and Switzerland.
On the recommendation of Humboldt, Hinrich Lichtenstein and Johann Lukas Schönlein, he became personal physician to Prince Waldemar of Prussia on his journey to India, which began in 1844, and about which he wrote a travelogue and on which he collected plants.
Childhood friend of Werner Hoffmeister and sponsor of the 1845-46 expedition to India