Max Hoferer

Maximilian Hoferer (born September 27, 1852 in Eschlbach , Bockhorn , † March 7, 1935 in Lohr am Main ) was director of the humanistic Franz-Ludwig-von-Erthal-Gymnasium in Lohr am Main from 1907 to 1920 and author of several books on German Literature.

Life

Hoferer was born as the son of the Eschlbacher teacher Franz Xaver Hoferer and his wife Anna Lex. His siblings also include the royal councilor and licensing doctor Franz Paul Hoferer . After attending the village school, he attended grammar school in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm , which he graduated from in 1872. From the winter semester of 1873 he studied philology and philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich until 1877 for eight semesters . As a high school teacher he took up a position in Aschaffenburg in 1883 , where he wrote his first literary treatises on works by famous German poets and writers such as Goethe and Lessing . During his career in Aschaffenburg he published several works and documents, including translations by Homer and Plutarch , as well as Latin and Greek. After he found a position as a grammar school director in Munich, he finally worked between 1907 and 1920 as director of the humanistic Franz-Ludwig-von-Erthal-Gymnasium in Lohr am Main, founded in 1902. There he published other works, even after his retirement as director and the death of his wife in 1920. He died on March 7, 1935 in his last place of life, Lohr am Main, and was buried there.

His children include the two senior physicians from Munich, Hermann and Arnold Hoferer.

Works

• Ioannis Monachi Liber de Miraculis. A late Latin translation, discussed and partially edited, 1884.
• Goethe's Egmont. 1885.
• Lessing's Emilia Galotti. 1885.
• Goethe's Torquato Tasso.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. School timetable