Wilhelm Hofmeister

Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister was a German biologist and botanist. He "stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel." Largely self-taught he was the first to study and establish alternation of generations and the details of sexual reproduction in the bryophytes.

18 May 1824

Born on the same birth day (18 May): Adwoa Aboah • Brent Ashton • Charles Kamathi • Diane Duane • Dimitri Daeseleire • Gino Brito • Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876) • Margot Fonteyn • Richard Clapton

Born in the same month (May 1824): Alexander William Williamson • Ambrose Burnside • Cadmus M. Wilcox • Edmund Kirby Smith • Jacob ben Moses Bachrach • Levi P. Morton • William Walker (filibuster)