Franz Bruno Hofmann

Franz Bruno Hofmann (born November 29, 1869 in Skalka , Braunau district , Bohemia , † June 6, 1926 in Marburg ) was an Austrian physiologist.

Life

Hofmann came from a weaving family, attended grammar school in Braunau and studied medicine at the German university in Prague . As a student he was a demonstrator and assistant to Ewald Hering , with whom he moved to the University of Leipzig in 1895 . Here he met his wife, geb. know from Suez. From 1898 he was a lecturer and from 1903 associate professor at the Leipzig Physiological Institute.

In 1905 he moved to the University of Innsbruck , in 1911 to the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague, in 1913 to the University of Königsberg and in 1916 to the University of Marburg , of which he was rector in 1917/18. In 1922 he was briefly at the University of Bonn and in 1923 he took over the management of the Berlin Institute. Hofmann had been a member of the Leopoldina since 1909 . Shortly before his death, on April 7, 1926, he was accepted as a full member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Publications

• The doctrine of the spatial sense of the eye

literature

• Hofmann Franz Bruno. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 381.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “5. June “according to Friedrich Jaksch : Lexicon of Sudeten German writers and their works for the years 1900–1929. Stiepel, Reichenberg 1929.
2. ↑ http://resources.metapress.com/pdf-preview.axd?code=kg8421hl1045n0r2&size=largest  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Members of the previous academies. Franz Bruno Hofmann. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on April 6, 2015 . 

Web links

• Literature by and about Franz Bruno Hofmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Overview of Franz Bruno Hofmann's courses at the University of Leipzig (winter semester 1896 to winter semester 1904)
• Hofmann, Franz Bruno. Hessian biography. (As of February 5, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).