Elise Hofmann

Elise Hofmann (born February 5, 1889 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; † March 14, 1955 there ) was an Austrian paleobotanist and teacher.

Hofmann first completed an apprenticeship as a secondary school teacher and worked in this profession all her life. She took the Matura and studied at the University of Vienna , where she in 1920 when Fritz von Wettstein Dr. phil. received his doctorate. In 1935 she qualified as a professor in paleobotany. She read this subject at the University of Vienna, but was not employed there. In 1950 she was given a tit. a. Professor awarded. As a paleobotanist, Hofmann was particularly interested in the paleohistology of fossil woods.

Publications (selection)

Elise Hofmann wrote numerous articles for Austrian journals, the negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute (Vienna) and the meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences , mathematical and scientific class.

• Occurrence, distribution and function of the stomata on the flower organs . Dissertation in botany at the University of Vienna, 1920.

literature

• Kurt Ehrenberg: Elise Hofmann . In: Negotiations of the Zoological-Botanical Society in Vienna 96, 1956 online
• O. Kühn: Elise Hofmann . In: Mitteilungen der Geologische Gesellschaft in Wien 49, 1956, pp. 357–363 (with picture and complete list of publications) online online
• Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1971, p. 51 online
• Brigitte Bishop: Hofmann, Elise. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , pp. 301-304.