Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer (German: Ferdinand Höfer, April 21, 1811 – May 1878) was a German-French physician and lexicographer

Lexicography

Lexicography is divided into two related disciplines:*Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries....

. He is now known for his many works on the history of science

History of science

The history of science is the study of the historical development of human understandings of the natural world and the domains of the social sciences....

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Selected works

• Éléments de chimie générale (1841)
• Histoire de la chimie: Volume 1, Volume 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
  Diodorus Siculus was a Greek historian who flourished between 60 and 30 BC. According to Diodorus' own work, he was born at Agyrium in Sicily . With one exception, antiquity affords no further information about Diodorus' life and doings beyond what is to be found in his own work, Bibliotheca...
  
  , trans. Hoefer.
• La chimie enseignée par la biographie de ses fondateurs (1865)
• 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

Nouvelle Biographie Générale

The Nouvelle Biographie Générale or the New General Biography, was a 46-volume, French-language, biographical reference work, compiled between 1853 and 1866 by Ferdinand Hoefer, French physician and lexicographer....

, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours" (New General Biography, from earliest times to the present day), from 1853 to 1866.

External links

Critical discussion of the Histoire de la chimie (Michel Eugène Chevreul

Michel Eugène Chevreul

Michel Eugène Chevreul was a French chemist whose work with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited with the discovery of margaric acid and designing an early form of soap made from animal fats and salt...

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