Franz Paul Hoferer

Franz Paul Hoferer (born November 4, 1854 in Eschlbach bei Bockhorn , † 1939 in Munich ) was a German doctor, royal Bavarian councilor and personal physician to the Wittelsbach family .

Life

Franz Paul Hoferer was born as the son of the Eschlbach teacher Franz Xaver Hoferer (from Schönfeld in the Upper Palatinate) and his wife Anna Lex. His siblings also include the grammar school director and author Maximilian Hoferer . After attending the village school, he attended grammar school in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , which he graduated from in 1875. From the winter semester of 1874 he studied philosophy for three semesters at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . This was followed by another fourteen semesters of medicine . Bernhard von Gudden and Max von Pettenkofer were also among his professors . From 1879 he was already working as a doctor in the district hospital in Munich. He was also an assistant in the I Medical Faculty Clinic of the LMU under Hugo von Ziemssen. After he had obtained his doctorate in medicine in 1880 , he finished his medical studies in the summer semester of 1882. He opened his doctor's practice at Sendlinger Tor and quickly made a name for himself in the state capital. Under Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria he was appointed King. Hofrat appointed and acted as court doctor of the Wittelsbach family. He remained this until the fall of the monarchy in 1919 and was therefore still court doctor under King Ludwig III . His practice was taken over by his son Erwin Hoferer in the 1920s. He died in Munich in 1939 and was buried there too.

His children also include the architect, painter, local researcher and curator Rudolf Hoferer (1892–1943).

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