Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer (German: ''Ferdinand Höfer'', 21 April 1811,

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– 4 May 1878) was a German-French physician and

lexicographer Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoreti ...

. He is now known for his many works on the

history of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal. Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Meso ...

Selected works

*''Éléments de chimie générale'' (1841) *''Histoire de la chimie''
Volume 1Volume 2
(1842–43) *
Dictionnaire de chimie et de physique
' (1846) *''Dictionnaire de médecine pratique'' (1847) *
Afrique australe ... Afrique orientale ... Afrique centrale ... Empire de Maroc
' (Paris, Firmin Didot frères, 1848) *''Dictionnaire de botanique'' (1850) *''Le Maroc et la Chaldée'' (1848) *
Chaldée, Assyrie, Médie, Babylonie, Mésopotamie, Phénicie, Palmyrène
' (Firmin Didot frères, 1852). *
Bibliothèque historique de Diodore de Sicile
' (L. Hachette, 1865). Work by

Diodorus Siculus Diodorus Siculus, or Diodorus of Sicily ( grc-gre, Διόδωρος ; 1st century BC), was an ancient Greek historian. He is known for writing the monumental universal history ''Bibliotheca historica'', in forty books, fifteen of which su ...

, trans. Hoefer. * *''Le monde des bois'' (1867) *''Les saisons'' (1867-1869) *''L'homme devant ses œuvres'' (1872) *
Histoire de la physique et de la chimie
' (Paris Hachette, 1872) *
Histoire de l'astronomie
' (Paris: Hachette, 1873) *''Histoire de la zoologie'' (1873) *''Histoire des mathématiques'' (1874) *
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 The ''Nouvelle Biographie Générale''Its full title was ''Nouvelle Biographie Générale, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'a nos jours, avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources a consulter'' ("New General Biog ...

, 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.).
Nouvelle Biographie Générale, Volume 24
' pp. 845-854.

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