Adriana Hoffmann
| Adriana Hoffmann | |
|---|---|
| Born | Adriana Elisabeth Hoffmann 1940 (age 76–77) Santiago, Chile |
| Other names | Adriana Hoffmann Jacoby |
| Residence | Cachagua, Coquimbo |
| Nationality | Chilean |
| Fields | Botany, ecology |
| Institutions | Defensores del Bosque Chileno |
| Alma mater | University of Chile |
| Known for | Describing 106 species of cactus |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | A.E.Hoffm. |
| Spouse | Hernán Calderón (divorced) |
| Children | Four |
Adriana Elisabeth Hoffmann Jacoby (born 1940) is a Chilean botanist, environmentalist, and author. She was Chile's Environment Minister in 2000 and 2001. She has advocated for the sustainable management and protection of Chilean forests, leading opposition to illegal logging in her role as coordinator of Defensores del Bosque Chileno (Defenders of the Chilean Forest) since 1992.
Hoffmann has authored over a dozen books on the flora of Chile and has identified and classified 106 new species of cactus.
Adriana Hoffmann was born in Santiago to Lola (née Jacoby) and Franz Hoffmann in 1940. She grew up in Providencia and attended Liceo Manuel de Salas. She was accepted at the University of Chile where she initially studied agronomy. She joined her mother when she traveled to Germany to study psychiatric techniques and there Adriana changed her focus to biology and specialized in botany and ecology. After she finished her studies, she returned to Chile and married engineer Hernán Calderón. They lived abroad for a time until returning to Chile in the 1970s.
Through her career, Hoffmann traveled throughout Chile, documenting flora and describing species. By April 2008, she had identified and classified 106 new species of Cactaceae.
In 1992, Hoffmann became coordinator of the non-profit organization Defensores del Bosque Chileno, Chile's largest forest protection group. She formed Agrupación de Defensores del Bosque Nativo in 1994, a group whose founding members included well-known singers and poets as well as economist Manfred Max Neef and Bishop Bernardino Piñera. By the mid-1990s, Hoffmann was recognized as one of Chile's premier environmental activists.
Hoffmann has served on the board of the Lahuen Foundation, a forest preservation organization that established El Cañi Sanctuary. She also played a leading role in the Chilean Science Society, Biology Society of Chile, Earth Foundation, International Union for Conservation of Nature, and the Association of Chilean Female Leaders. Hoffmann's efforts with Defensores del Bosque included developing environmental education programs for teachers.
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