Ferdinand Hoefer

{{Short description|German-French physician and lexicographer}} {{Expand French|topic=bio|Jean-Chrétien-Ferdinand Hœfer|date=September 2012}} thumb|Ferdinand Hoefer '''Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer''' (German: ''Ferdinand Höfer'', 21 April 1811, Döschnitz – 4 May 1878) was a German-French physician and lexicographer. He is now known for his many works on the history of science.

==Selected works==

*''Éléments de chimie générale'' (1841) *''Histoire de la chimie'': [https://archive.org/details/histoiredelachim01hoef Volume 1], [https://archive.org/details/histoiredelachim02hoef Volume 2] (1842–43) *''[https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedech00hoefuoft Dictionnaire de chimie et de physique]'' (1846) *''Dictionnaire de médecine pratique'' (1847) *''[https://archive.org/details/afriqueaustralea00hoef Afrique australe ... Afrique orientale ... Afrique centrale ... Empire de Maroc]'' (Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1848) *''Dictionnaire de botanique'' (1850) *''Le Maroc et la Chaldée'' (1848) *''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Knzn1wBYsGYC Chaldée, Assyrie, Médie, Babylonie, Mésopotamie, Phénicie, Palmyrène]'' (Firmin Didot frères, 1852). *''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WWsOAAAAQAAJ Bibliothèque historique de Diodore de Sicile]'' (L. Hachette, 1865). Work by Diodorus Siculus, trans. Hoefer. * {{Cite book|title=Chimie einsegnée par la biographie de ses fondateurs|volume=|publisher=Hachette et C.ie|location=Paris|year=1865|language=fr|url=https://gutenberg.beic.it/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=12383566}} *''Le monde des bois'' (1867) *''Les saisons'' (1867-1869) *''L'homme devant ses œuvres'' (1872) *''[https://archive.org/details/histoiredelaphys00hoefuoft Histoire de la physique et de la chimie]'' (Paris: Hachette, 1872) *''[https://archive.org/details/histoiredelastro00hoefuoft Histoire de l'astronomie]'' (Paris: Hachette, 1873) *''Histoire de la zoologie'' (1873) *''Histoire des mathématiques'' (1874) *''[https://archive.org/details/histoiredelabota00hoef Histoire de la botanique, de la minéralogie et de la géologie]'' (Paris, Hachette et cie, 1882).

He also compiled the 46-volume "''Nouvelle Biographie Générale, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours''" (New General Biography, from earliest times to the present day), from 1853 to 1866.

==References==

*F. Hoefer (Ed.). ''[https://archive.org/details/nouvellebiograph24hoef Nouvelle Biographie Générale, Volume 24]'' pp. 845-854.

==External links== * {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20060102205452/http://hdelboy.club.fr/add_chevreul_hoefer.html Critical discussion of the ''Histoire de la chimie''] (Michel Eugène Chevreul)

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