What is Jesper Hoffmeyer?
[[File:Jesper Hoffmeyer, 2010.jpg|thumb|right|Jesper Hoffmeyer, 2010.]] '''Jesper Hoffmeyer''' (21 February 1942 – 25 September 2019) was a professor at the [[University of Copenhagen]] Institute of Biology. He was the President of the [[International Society for Biosemiotic Studies|International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS)]] from 2005 to 2015, co-editor of the journal [[Biosemiotics (journal)|''Biosemiotics'']] and the [https://www.springer.com/series/7710 Springer Book series in Biosemiotics]. He authored the books ''Biosemiotics: An Examination into the Signs of Life and the Life of Signs'' and ''Signs of Meaning in the Universe'' and edited ''A Legacy for Living Systems: Gregory Bateson as Precursor to Biosemiotics''. Hoffmeyer died on 25 September 2019 of a [[heart attack]] at the age of 77.<ref>[https://www.information.dk/kultur/2019/09/nekrolog-biosemiotikeren-jesper-hoffmeyers-historie-vaere-utaenkelig-dag Nekrolog: Biosemiotikeren Jesper Hoffmeyers historie ville være utænkelig i dag] {{in lang|da}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoffmeyer, Jesper}} [[Category:1942 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Danish academics]] [[Category:Danish biologists]] [[Category:Semioticians]]