Johann Joseph Hoffmann

Johann Joseph Hoffmann (February 16, 1805 – January 19, 1878[1][2][3]) was a German scholar who studied the Japanese and Chinese languages.

After studying at Würzburg, he went on the stage in 1825; but owing to an accidental meeting with the German traveller Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796–1866) in July 1830, his interest was diverted to Oriental philology.

[4] In a few years he was able to supply the translations for Siebold's Nippon, and the high character of his work soon attracted the attention of older scholars.

Unable at first to procure the necessary type, he set himself to the cutting of punches, and even when the proper founts were obtained he had to act as his own compositor as far as Chinese and Japanese were concerned.

; Yo-San-fi-Rok, L'Art d'élever les vers à soie au Japon par Ouckaki Mourikouni (Paris, 1848); “Die Heilkunde in Japan” in Mittheil.