Johann Jacob Hofmann (Hoffmann [1] ; German: Johann Jacob Hofmann ; 1635 , Basel - May 10, 1706 , ibid.) - Swiss historian, theologian, professor of Greek; the author of the four-volume Latin encyclopedia “ Lexicon Universale ” (1677, 2 volumes and additional 1683, 2 volumes), devoted mainly to antiquity (classical antiquity).
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Biography
He has lived all his life in his hometown. The son of a teacher, from childhood showed erudition, at the age of 20 he graduated from the study of theology. For health reasons, he could not take the place of the parish priest, he gave private lessons until he was appointed professor of Greek at the University of Basel in 1667.
From 1684 until his death in 1706 he taught history there.
In 1677 he published Lexicon Universale , an encyclopedia in four volumes of 1,000 pages each (supplemented in 1683 and 1698). Written in Latin, it contained extensive data on natural history, geography , zoology , botany , mineralogy , cosmology , genealogy , mythology , everyday life with its activities, customs and traditions, and much more.
List of Proceedings
- Assertiones ... in academia patria graeca vacante cathedra / publicae censurae subiicit Ioh. Iacobus Hofmannus ... d. Martii M DC LXV. respondentis munus subituro ... Ioh. Rodolpho Burcardo . Basileae: Typis Iohan. Iacobi Deckeri, Academiae Typographi, 1665 (Disputatio phil. Basel, 1665)
- Joh. Conradus Hermannus (Respondent): Diatribe politica successionis eximia repraesentans . Basileae, Basel: Bertsche, 1670
- Lexicon Universale Historico-Geographico-Chronologico-Poetico-Philological Aliaque plurima scitu dignissima; Cum Indicibus variis, Rerum imprimis locupletissimo, memorabilia huius Lexici per Locorum Communium titulos Lectori illico spectanda exhibente . Genevae, Basileae: Widerhold, Bertschius, 1677 (2 Bde.)
- ... Continuatio ... Basileae, Basel: Widerhold, Bertsch & Genath, 1683 (3 Bde.)
- ... Editio absolutissima, praeter supplementa, & additiones, antea seorsum editas, nunc suis locis ac ordinis insertas ... Lugduni Batavorum: Hackius, Boutesteyn, Vander Aa, Luchtmans, 1698 (4 Bde., Online )
- Meditatio theologica inauguralis passionum animae Christi. ... quam moderatore ... DD Petro Werenfelsio, ... pro doctura theologica ... proponit M. Joh. Jacobus Hofmannus . Basileae: Bertsch, 1685
- Epitome metrica historiae universalis civilis et sacrae (Résumé de l'histoire de la métrique chronologique civile et sacrée, de la fondation du monde jusqu'à l'année 1686): ab orbe condito usque ad annum praesentem 1686 cum enarratione hist.chron. ... in usum iuventutis . Basileae: König, 1686
- Historia paparum seu episcoporum ecclesiae Romanae (Histoire des papes ou des évêques de l'Église de Rome): a primis eius incunabulis usque ad nostram aetatem brevi metro comprehensa; Cum enarratione historico-chronologica res sacro-profans totius orbis, pontificio caesareas inprimis, juxta seculorum annorumque seriem, succincte complexâ et ind. triplici . Basel: Koenig, 1687. - Coloniae Munatianae, 1688 (2 Bde.)
Interesting Facts
- Johann Jacob identified the Gelvikon tribe (see Lugia), mentioned by Tacitus in " Germany ", with the Gillevion tribe (hilleviones) in Pliny [2] .
Notes
- ↑ In the ESB : “ in Germany -“ Lexicon universale ”(1677, 2 volumes and additional 1683, 2 volumes) by I. I. Hoffmann ” / Encyclopedia // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 tons) . and 4 add.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Helvecones article in his Lexicon Universale .