Johann Jakob Hofmann (theologian)

Johann Jakob Hofmann (also Jacob , also Hoffmann ; born September 11, 1635 in Basel ; † May 10, 1706 ibid) was a Swiss theologian , historian and lexicographer .

Life

His father was the high school teacher Johann Jakob Hofmann. He studied at the University of Basel , had a master's degree at the age of 15 and passed the theology exam there in 1655 . He gave private tuition until he received the professorship of the Greek language at the University of Basel in 1667 , which he exchanged for the professorship of history in 1683. In 1685 he achieved his doctorate in theology.

Services

His greatest achievement is editing the Lexicon Universale , which has kept him busy for decades. It is the first lexicon to be called the universal lexicon , and one of the last scholarly lexicons in Latin . The first edition is an adaptation of the Dictionarium historicum, geographicum, poeticum (Geneva 1596) by Charles Estienne . Hofmann's historical works had no lasting effect. The little theological treatises are of little importance.

Works

• Assertiones… in academia patria graeca vacante cathedra / publicae censurae subiicit Ioh. Iacobus Hofmannus… d. Martii M DC LXV. respondentis munus subituro ... Ioh. Rodolpho Burcardo . Basileae: Typis Iohan. Iacobi Deckeri, Academiae Typographi, 1665 (Disputatio phil. Basel, 1665)
• Joh. Conradus Hermannus (respondent): Diatribe politica successionis eximia repraesentans . Basileae, Basel: Bertsche, 1670
• Lexicon Universale Historico-Geographico-Chronologico-Poetico-Philologicum: Continens Historiam Omnis Aevi, Geographiam omnium Locorum, Genealogiam principum Familiarum, addita ubique Chronologia tum veteri tum recentiore, Mythologiam insuper omnium Fabularum, Discussionem Philologicam illustrium circa haec occurrentiumicultum; Aliaque plurima scitu dignissima; Cum Indicibus variis, Rerum imprimis locupletissimo, memorabilia huius Lexici per Locorum Communium titulos Lectori illico spectanda exhibente . Genevae, Basileae: Widerhold, Bertschius, 1677 (2 vol.)
  • … Continuatio… . Basileae, Basel: Widerhold, Bertsch & Genath, 1683 (3 vol.)
  • … Editio absolutissima, praeter supplementa, & additiones, antea seorsum editas, nunc suis locis ac ordinis insertas… . Lugduni Batavorum: Hackius, Boutesteyn, Vander Aa, Luchtmans, 1698 (4 vols., Online )
• Meditatio theologica inauguralis passionum animae Christi. … Quam moderatore… DD Petro Werenfelsio,… pro doctura theologica… proponit M. Joh. Jacobus Hofmannus . Basileae: Bertsch, 1685
• Epitome metrica historiae universalis civilis et sacrae: ab orbe condito usque ad annum praesentem 1686 cum enarratione hist.-chronolog. ... in usum iuventutis . Basileae: King, 1686
• Historia paparum seu episcoporum ecclesiae Romanae: a primis eius incunabulis usque ad nostram aetatem brevi metro comprehensa; Cum enarratione historico-chronologica res sacro-profans totius orbis, pontificio caesareas inprimis, juxta seculorum annorumque seriem, succincte complexâ et ind. triplici . Basel: Koenig, 1687. - Coloniae Munatianae, 1688 (2 vols.)

literature

• Robert Collison: Encyclopaedias: their history throughout the ages. 2nd Edition. Hafner, New York 1964, p. 89.
• Karin Marti-Weissenbach: Hofmann, Johann Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Georg Meyer: The conversation lexicon, a special form of the encyclopedia. Dissertation, University of Göttingen, 1966, p. 18.
• Wolfgang Rother: Philosophy at the University of Basel in the 17th century: sources and analysis. Juris, Zurich 1981 (= discussion, University of Zurich, 1980), pp. 217–220.
• Wilhelm Vischer :  Hofmann, Johann Jacob . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 630.

Web links

• Publications by and about Johann Jakob Hofmann in VD 17 .