halle study physician HOFFMANN, FRIEDRICH (1660-1742), the most
famous physician in a family that had been connected with
medicine for 200 years before him, was born at Halle, February
19, 1660. He received his school education at the gymnasium of
his native town, where he acquired that taste fur and skill in
mathematics to which he attributed much of his after success. At
the age of eighteen he went to study medicine at Jena, whence in
1680 he passed to Erfurt, in order to attend Kasper Cramer's
lectures on chemistry. Next year, returning to Jena, he received
his doctor's diploma, and, after publishinu° a thesis, was
permitted to teach. Constant study then began to tell on his
health, and in 1682, leaving his already numerous pupils, he
proceeded to Minden in Westphalia to recruit himself, at the
request of a relative who held a high position in that town.
After practising his profession at Minden for two years,
Hoffmann made a journey to Holland and England, where he formed
the acquaintance of many illustri