# Ferdinand Hoefer

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{{Short description|German-French physician and lexicographer}}
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'''Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer''' (German: ''Ferdinand Höfer'', 21 April 1811, [Döschnitz](/source/D%C3%B6schnitz) – 4 May 1878) was a German-French physician and [lexicographer](/source/Lexicography). He is now known for his many works on the [history of science](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Nouvelle_Biographie_G%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale), 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](/source/Michel_Eug%C3%A8ne_Chevreul))

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