> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 248](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33068490) of TL-2 Vol. II > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/4024-1) LSID 4024-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20033347) QID Q20033347 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Hofman Bang, Niels (1776-1855), Danish botanist, pupil of Vahl, landowner (Hofmannsgave) and agronomist. **Abbreviated name**: *Hofm. B.* \[standard form in IPNI: *Bang*\] #### Herbarium and types [[Collection C|C]]. *Exsiccatae* (all at [[Collection C|C]]): (1) *Musci frondosi*, 1 vol. 1840; - (2) *Conferva*, 2 vols.; - (3) *Hydrophyta*, 4 vols., 1816-1843; - (4) *Alg. mar. medit, adriat.* 1847. #### Name Born Niels Bang; Hofman Bang from 1785 to honor his mother's family; see Christensen, Danske Bot. Hist. 2: 137. 1924. #### Bibliography and biography Barnhart 1: 117; BM 2: 859; CSP 3: 389, 6: 689; IH 2: 280; KR p. 299; PR 4166-4167 (ed. 1: 4613); Rehder 5: 399; Urban-Berl. p. 265, 302. - Christensen, C., Danske Bot. Hist. 1: 225-228, 879. 1924, 2: 137-139. 1924 (bibl.) (see p. 138, no. 12 for autobiography by Hofman Bang). - Koster, J. T., Taxon 18: 553. 1969. - Liebman, Overs. danske Vid. Selsk. Forh. 1855: 206-222. - Warming, E., Bot. Tidskkr. 12(2/3): 97-98. 1881 (bibl.). #### Composite works Contributed to *Flora danica* between 1799 and 1852; also to J. Lange, *Danske flora*, ed. I. H.'s son, Niels Erik Hofman (Bang) (1803-1886), also published on botany and contributed to these same publications (see Warming, Bot. Tidsskr. 12: 213-214. (1881) and Lind, J., Danish fungi herb. Rostrup 30. (1913). #### Eponymy *Bangia* Lyngbye (1819); *Bangiella* Gaillon (1833); *Bangiopsis* F. Schmitz (1896). *Note*: *Hofmania* R. Chodat (1900) is dedicated to his son Niels Erik Hofman Bang (1803-1886). ### Publications ##### n.2915. De usu confervarum **Title** *De usu confervarum* in oeconomia naturae. Scripsit Hofman-Bang, possessor praedii Hofmansgave in Fionia. Cum tabula aeri incisa. Hafniae \[Kjöbnhavn\] 1818. Oct. **Abbreviated title**: *Usu conferv.* **Notes** *Publ*.: 1818, p. \[1\]-27, *pl. 1*, with text. *Copy*: PCS. – See Christensen no. 3a for Danish texts relating to this publication.