Hoffmann, Andreas Gottlieb

HOFFMAN, EUGENE AUGUSTUS: Protestant Episcopalian; b. in New York City Mar. 21, 1829; d. there June 17, 1902. He was educated at Rutgers College (B.A., 1847), Harvard (1847-48), and the General Theological Seminary, from which he was graduated in 1851. He was missionary at Eliz abethport, N. J. (1851-53), rector of Christ Church, Elizabeth, N. J. (1853-63), St. Mary's, Burlington, N. J. (1863-64), Grace, Brooklyn, N. Y. (1864-69), and St. Mark's, Philadelphia (.1869-79). In 1879 he was elected dean of the General Theological Seminary, a position which he retained until his death. In this dignity his personal means and his executive ability enabled him to reestablish the seminary on a firm foundation and practically to reorganize it. His rectorates were equally energetic and beneficial, churches being established at Mill burn and Woodbridge, N. J., while he was at Christ Church, and the first working men's club in the United States being founded by him at St. Mark's. He was the author of Free Churches (New York, 1856); The Eucharistic Week (1870); and Gen ealogy of the Hoffman Family (1899).

Bibliography: . M. Riley, A Memorial Biography o, Eugene Augustus Hofman (2 vols., Jamaica, N. Y., 1904).

HOFFMANN, ANDREAS GOTTLIEB: German Protestant Semitic scholar; b. at Welbaleben, near Magdeburg, Apr. 13, 1796; d. at Jena Mar. 16, 1864. He was educated at the gymnasium of Magdeburg and the University of Halle (Ph.D., 1820), where he became privat-docent in 1822. There he lectured on Oriental languages, especially on Arabic, and received calls to Königsberg and Jena. He chose the latter and was active there until his death, becoming senior of the theological faculty and of the academic senate. His lectures on Jewish antiquities were most popular, but he also taught church history, Old and New Testament isagogics, exegesis of the Old Testament, and Semitic and Hindu languages, though his main strength lay in Hebrew and Syriac. His Grammatica Syriaca (Halle, 1827; Eng. transl. by B. H. Cowper, The Principles of Syriac Gram mar, London, 1858) was based on that of Michaelis. Other important works are Entwurf der hebräischert Alterthiimer (Weimar, 1832); Das Buch Henoch (2 parts, Jena, 1833-38), translated from the English and Ethiopic; Ctmtmentareus philo logico-criticus in Mosis benedictio-nem, Deut. XXXIII. (Halle, 1823). Besides his original works, he edited and translated much, and wrote numerous articles for periodicals and en cyclopedias.

(G. Frank†.)

Bibliography: G. Frank, in Protestantische Kirchenwitung, 1864, no. 13, repeated in part in Allgemeine akademische Zeitung, 1864, no. 12; ADS, xii. 571.