Ignaz Hofmann

Ignaz Hofmann (born April 23, 1857 in Oberweckelsdorf , Bohemia ; † February 11, 1934 in Baden near Vienna) was an Austrian teacher, amateur archaeologist and collector.

Ignaz Hofmann trained as a teacher. In 1877 he joined the 18th Infantry Regiment of the Imperial and Royal Army and later switched to the 17th Infantry Regiment. From 1890 he was employed as a military senior teacher at the military orphanage in Fischau , Lower Austria. From 1899 until his retirement in 1910 he worked at the educational institute for orphaned officer's sons in Hirtenberg , Lower Austria, as an economic manager, adjutant and administrator.

Hofmanns owned an extensive collection of coins, medals, old weapons, pictures, beetles, minerals, folklore objects as well as palaeontological , prehistoric and Roman finds. These included in particular numerous finds from the prehistoric hill settlement on the Malleiten, which he rediscovered in 1884 . There the Hofmannshöhle near Fischau was named after him. His prehistoric finds from the Malleiten have been exhibited several times. In 1924 Hofmann published an overview of the collection together with Georg Kyrle .

The Hofmanns collection is not completely preserved. Hofmann sold it to Richard Böhmker . Through this, the collection came to the Institute for Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Vienna in 1920 . In addition, a small part of the collection came to the Wiener Neustadt City Museum even before the First World War .

Publications

• with Georg Kyrle: Collection Ignaz Hofmann (with special consideration of the finds from the Malleitenberge) . In: Dagobert Frey : The monuments of the political district of Baden (= Austrian art topography, vol. 18). Vienna 1924, pp. 360–386.

literature

• Richard Pittioni : Ignaz Hofmann . In: Wiener Prähistorische Zeitschrift 21, 1934, pp. 81–82.
• Helmuth Zapfe : Index Palaeontologicorum Austriae. Supplementum (= Catalogus fossilium Austriae issue 15a). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-7001-0948-2 , pp. 172-173 ( online ).

Web links

• Ignaz Hofmann (1857–1934) in the study collection of the Institute for Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Vienna.