Ferdinand Höfer
Johann Christian Ferdinand Höfer (born April 21, 1811 in Döschnitz in Thuringia , † May 4, 1878 in Brunoy , Essonne Department ) was a Franco-German doctor, lexicographer and writer.
Ferdinand Höfer wandered through Germany, Holland and Belgium after completing his high school studies. In 1830 he volunteered in Marseille in the expedition to occupy the Peloponnese peninsula and, when he returned to France in 1831, became a teacher.
He translated Kant's Critique of Pure Reason into French, pursued medical studies at the same time, practiced as a doctor for a time in Paris, traveled to Germany in 1843 and 1846 on behalf of the government to study medicine and economics, and in 1851 took over the management of the Nouvelle Biographie Générale (1851–66, 46 vols.), For which he wrote numerous articles himself.
He died on May 4, 1878 in Brunoy (Seine-et-Oise).
Publications (selection)
- Eléments de chimie générale (1841)
- Histoire de la chimie (1842–43, 2 vol .; 2nd ed. 1869) (translated into several languages)
- 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 seasons (1867–1869, 2 parts)
- L'homme devant ses œuvres (under the pseudonym Jean l'Ermite, 1872)
- Histoire de l'astronomie
- Histoire de la botanique, de la minéralogie et de la geologie
- Histoire de la physique et de la chimie
- Histoire de la zoologie (1873)
- Histoire des mathématiques (1874)
literature
- Karl Hammer: Höfer, Ferdinand. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 310 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Ferdinand Höfer in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hofer, Ferdinand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoefer, Ferdinand; Hoefer, Jean Chrétien Ferdinand; l'Hermite, Jean (pseudonym); Hermite, Jean l '(pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-French writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Döschnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 1878 |
| Place of death | Brunoy |