HOFFMANN, FRIEDRICH (166o-1742), German physi cian, a member of a family that had been connected with medicine for 200 years before him, was born at Halle on Feb. 19, 1660. On the founding of Halle university in 1693, he received the pri marius chair of medicine, and he was charged with the framing of the statutes for the new medical faculty. He filled also the chair of natural philosophy. With the exception of four years 0708-17'2) which he passed at Berlin in the capacity of royal physician, Hoff mann spent the rest of his life at Halle in instruction, practice and study, interrupted now and again by visits to different courts of Germany, where his services procured him honours and rewards. His fame became European. He died at Halle on Nov. 12, 1742.
Of his numerous writings a catalogue is to be found in Haller's Bibliotheca medicinae practicae. The chief is Medicina rationalis sys tematica, undertaken at the age of 6o, and published in 173o. It was translated into French in 1739, under the title of Medecine raisonnee d'Hoffmann. A complete edition of Hoffmann's works, with a life of the author, was published at Geneva in 174o, to which supplements were added in and 176o.