Ferdinand Hoefer
{{Short description|German-French physician and lexicographer}}
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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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