Ferdinand Hoefer

Johann Christian Ferdinand Hoefer (* April 21, 1811 in Döschnitz in Thuringia; † May 4, 1878 in Brunoy, department Essonne ) was a German - French physician, lexicographer and writer.

Ferdinand Hoefer wandered for completed secondary school studies Germany, Holland, Belgium and graduated in 1830 in Marseille as a volunteer in the expedition for the occupation of the Peloponnese peninsula, was returned to France in 1831, teacher.

He translated Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, translated into French, shoot at the same time, medical studies, practiced for a time in Paris as a doctor, traveled in 1843 and 1846 on behalf of the government to study medicine and economy after Germany, and took over in 1851 the management of the Nouvelle biographie générale ( 1851-66, 46 vols ), for which he wrote numerous articles.

He died on 4 May 1878 in Brunoy (Seine- et- Oise ).

Works (selection)

  • Éléments de chimie générale (1841 ); and translated into several languages ​​Histoire de la chimie ( 1842-43, 2 ​​vols, 2nd edition 1869);
  • Dictionnaire de chimie et de physique (1846, 3rd ed 1857);
  • Dictionnaire de médecine pratique (1847 );
  • Dictionnaire de botanique (1850 );
  • Le Maroc et la Chaldée, etc (1848 );
  • La chimie enseignée par la biographie de ses fondateurs (1865 );
  • Le monde des bois (1867 );
  • Les saisons (1867-1869, 2 Tle );
  • L' homme devant ses oeuvres ( under the pseudonym of Jean l' Ermite, 1872),
  • Histoire de l' astronomy,
  • Histoire de la botanique de la minéralogie et de la géologie,
  • Histoire de la physique et de la chimie,
  • Histoire de la zoology (1873 );
  • Histoire des Mathématiques (1874 )
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