# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-hofmeister
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:08:33.725Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wilhelm-hofmeister"
name: "Wilhelm Hofmeister"
slug: "wilhelm-hofmeister"
description: "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."
tagline: "German botanist (1824-1877)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wilhelm_Hofmeister_(HeidICON_28826)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1824-05-18"
deathDate: "1877-01-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.29265866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump