Ottmar Hofmann

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Ottmar Hofmann, German physician and entomologist

Ottmar Hofmann (born September 20, 1835 in Frankfurt am Main , † February 22, 1900 in Regensburg ) was a German physician and entomologist .

Life

Ottmar Hofmann studied medicine in Erlangen, Berlin, Prague and Vienna. In Erlangen he became a member of the Corps Bavaria in 1854 . After receiving his doctorate from the University of Erlangen in 1859, he practiced as a doctor in Regensburg, Neunburg vorm Walde, Bodenwöhr and Marktsteft. In 1873 he was appointed district doctor in Obernburg near Aschaffenburg and in 1876 as district doctor for the city of Würzburg. In 1881 he was appointed to the government and district medical council in Regensburg. From 1886 he was also the director of the Regensburg district building. As a doctor, he published in particular on medical-statistical topics. As a student of Gottlieb August Herrich-Schäffer in Regensburg, he also wrote numerous entomological writings.

Fonts

medical:

  • Medical statistics of the city of Würzburg for the period 1871–75, 1877
  • Medical statistics of the city of Würzburg for the period 1876–79
  • Medical statistics of the city of Würzburg for the period 1877–81
  • Morbidity statistics for the Upper Palatinate in 1883 and 1884

entomological:

  • Two new tinees, 1868
  • About Oecophora devotella, 1868
  • Contributions to the natural history of the Coleophores 1869
  • Contributions to the knowledge of Parthenogenesis, 1869
  • Research on Sciaphilia Wahlbomiana L. and related species, 1872
  • Necrolog for Gottlieg August Herrich-Schäffer, 1874
  • Three new lines from Württemberg, 1875
  • On the natural history of the psychids, a group of insects from the order of the Lepidoptera, 1859
  • About the arrangement of the bristle-bearing warts in the caterpillars of the pterophorids, 1898
  • Observations on the Natural History of Some Species of Pterophors, 1898
  • About the first classes of the Eriocephalids, 1899
  • On the natural history of the micropterygids, 1900

literature

  • Pagel: Biographical lexicon of outstanding doctors of the nineteenth century . Berlin, Vienna 1901, Col. 764-765. ( Permalink )

Web links

Wikisource: Ottmar Hofmann  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 20 , 139
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Ottmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physician and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1900
Place of death regensburg