Werner Friedrich Ludwig Albert (Werner) Hoffmeister
1819–45
German physician and naturalist. Completed a dissertation on earthworms in Berlin in 1842; wrote and illustrated a monograph on earthworms in 1845. In 1844, accompanied Prince Waldemar of Prussia as a personal physician on an expedition to India; killed in battle after the outbreak of a war with the Sikhs.
Sources
Barnhart comp. 1965
Database of scientific illustrators 1450–1950, https://dsi.hi.uni-stuttgart.de/ (accessed 10 June 2020)
Pierer’s Universal-Lexikon
Bibliography
Barnhart, John Hendley, comp. 1965. Biographical notes upon botanists … maintained in the New York Botanical Garden Library. 3 vols. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall.
Pierer’s Universal-Lexikon: Pierer’s Universal-Lexikon der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. 4th edition. 19 vols. Alternburg: H. A. Pierer. 1857–65.
