Bruno Hofer
Bruno Hofer was a German fishery scientist, credited with being the founder of fish pathology.
Career
Hofer was born in Rhein in the Province of Prussia in 1861. He studied natural sciences at the University of Königsberg, receiving his doctorate in 1887 in Munich as a student of Richard Hertwig. He then worked as an assistant at the Zoological Institute of Munich, and in 1889 obtained his habilitation. He obtained a position at the Zoological Institute as a university lecturer and in 1891 acquired citizenship of the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1894, he was appointed as a curator of the Zoologischen Sammlung des Staates, and two years later became a lecturer for ichthyology at the veterinary university of Munich. In 1898, he was awarded an associate professorship for zoology and ichthyology and the chair of a full professor in 1904.During his career, he was also director of the "Royal Bavarian Research Station for Fisheries" and the "Royal Bavarian Research Station for Fish-Farming", vice-president of the "Bavarian Association of Fishermen" and editor of the magazine "Allgemeine Fischereizeitung". In 1909 he circumscribed the whitefish species Coregonus bavaricus. Hofer died in 1916 in Munich at the age of 54.