Ernst Hofmann (entomologist)
Ernst Hofmann was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He is not to be confused with Ottmar Hofmann also was an entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera.
Also a zoologist, Ernst Hofmann trained as an apothecary and later became the curator of the Naturalienkabinett in Stuttgart. His collections of Psychidae, Sesiidae, Tortricidae, Tineidae and Pterophoridae are held by Natural History Museum, London. Others are held by the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. He wrote parts of the multi-volume work Die Schmetterlinge Europas, published in 1908. This was for decades a standard in the study of Lepidoptera.
