 Following his return from the Transcaucasus, Hohenacker earned his living selling exsiccatae based on specimens of other collectors.He was the author of "Enumeratio Plantarum quas in itinere per provinciam Talysch collegit".In 1836 the botanical genus "Hohenackeria" (family Apiaceae) was named in his honor by Carl Anton von Meyer and Friedrich Ernst Ludwig von Fischer.