Johann Hoffer (gymnastics teacher)

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Johann Hoffer (born April 11, 1823 in Langenlois , Austrian Empire , † April 21, 1891 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) was an Austrian gymnastics teacher .

Life

Johann Hoffer was born on April 11, 1823 in the Lower Austrian village of Langenlois in what was then the Austrian Empire. At the University of Vienna , he studied from 1843 to 1846 jurisprudence and then 1847-1854 Medicine . After graduating there, he devoted himself entirely to gymnastics , which Rudolf von Stephani , the half-brother of Albert von Stephani , introduced him to. Subsequently, he appeared as a gymnastics teacher at Rudolf von Stephani’s private gymnasium and then taught physical education at the orphanage and at the gymnasium of the University of Vienna. After a brief interlude as a deputy university gymnastics teacher at the Theresian Military Academy in the Burg in Wiener Neustadt in 1856, he was responsible for physical education there until his death in 1891.

After G. Stegmeyer, who had previously appeared as a gymnastics and gymnastics teacher in Prague , retired in 1871, Hoffer subsequently headed the university gymnasium . He also took over the management of the two-year gymnastics teacher training course for the teaching post at secondary schools and teacher training institutions (later the Institute for Physical Education at the university ) and was on the examination committee for the teaching post for gymnastics in Vienna (also for secondary schools and teacher training institutions), which was founded in 1870. As a leading person, Hoffer had a great influence in gymnastics club circles, where he appeared above all as head gymnastics supervisor and representative of the first Viennese gymnastics club . In parallel to his university activities, he led several gymnastics courses (mainly for compulsory school teachers) for Vienna and the province of Lower Austria in the 1860s .

Johann Hoffer is considered to be the first Austrian-born specialist educator in his home country and was considered by Stephanis to be the “most astute and active student”, after Adolf Spieß he became the most important representative of German school gymnastics in Austria at that time. Throughout his life he received numerous public honors, the most outstanding of which was the award of the title of professor in 1877, which is rare for a gymnastics teacher, or the award of the title of director in 1886. A few days after his 68th birthday, Hoffer died in his hometown of Vienna.

Fonts

  • Report . In: JC Lion (ed.): Statistics of school gymnastics in Germany . 1869.
  • Gymnastics in general and gymnastics lessons in the Imperial and Royal Theresian Academy . In: Annual report of the Gymnasium of the Imperial and Royal Theresian Academy . Vienna 1879.

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personal data
SURNAME Hoffer, Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian gymnastics teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenlois , Austrian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1891
Place of death Vienna , Austria-Hungary