Giovanni Antonio Hofman (simplified Chinese: 贺广才; traditional Chinese: 賀廣才; pinyin: Hè Guǎngcái; 12 June 1834 – 26 October 1917) was a Dutch Catholic missionary prelate and bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lu'an from 1891 to 1901.
[1] Giovanni Antonio Hofman was born in Voerden, North Holland, United Kingdom of the Netherlands, on 12 June 1834.
On 24 April 1891, he succeeded Martin Poell as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lu'an.
[2] In the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, he fled to Lin County (now Linzhou), Henan, and returned to the Netherlands on 16 July 1901.
[3] Giovanni Antonio Hofman died in Wychen on 26 October 1917, at the age of 83.