Hoel, bishop of Mans in the 13th centurs-, made himself quite conspicuous by the part which lie took for the English in the revolt of the nobility of Mans against them after the death of WDliam the Conqueror. He suffered imprisonment, and after the accession of Hugo was even obliged to seek a refuge in England. But we find him again at Mans in 1092, and an attend- ant at the councils of Saumur (1094) and Brives. Later he travelled for a time with pope Urban II. He died IV.-T
Julv 28, 1096.— Hoefer, Nouv.Biog. Generule, xxiv, 859. (J.H.W.)
Hoeschelius, David, an eminent Greek scholar, born at Augsburg in 1556, was professor at St. Anne's College, and, later, the librarian of his native city. He died Oct. 30, 1617. He deserves a notice here on ac- count of his valuable editions of some of the Greek fa- thers, and of a number of (ireek authors who have writ- ten in the department of Christian antiquity and eccle- siastical history.— Bayle, llist. Did. iii, 478.
Hoe veil [pronounced Iloovn], Auraham (des Ajiorie) van der, a celebrated Dutch preacher, bom at Rotterdam in 1798, M'as for a time professor at the sem- inary of the Remonstrants at Amsterdam, and later pro- fessor at Utrecht. He died Jidy, 1855. Hoeven wrote De Joanne Clerico et Philippo a Limborck (Amst. 1843). — Pierer, Universal-Lex. viii, 435.
Hofacker, Ltidwig, a German divine and cele- brated inearlur. born at Wildbad April 15, 1798, and ed- ucated at the University of Tiibingen. "While here he became very zealous for the cause of religion, and espe- cially endeavored to encourage the study of the Bible among his fellow -students. He formed Bible-classes which were largely attended; and his intimate acquaint- ance with the works of the orthodox commentators Bengel, Oetinger, and Steinhofer rendered him especial service in his sermons, which he frequently delivered at this time, always extemporaneously. After filling the Ticarates of Stettin and Plieningen, he was appointed as- sistant to his father, preacher at St. Leonard's, in Stutt- gard. He was now only 28 years old, but his sermons attracted general attention, especially on account of his earnestness and piety. In 182G, after the death of his father, he was sent to Rielingshausen, near Marbach. It is said that his audience was composed not only of his oym congregation, but that strangers came from afar to hear the young preacher. In the fall of 1827, urged by his admirers and many friends, he began the publication of some of his sermons : Prediyten (1827 ; 27th ed. 1866). The rapid sale of these was really surijrising. An edi- tion of 1500 was exhausted almost immediately after publication. His sudden death, November 18, 1828, in- cited his friends to a publication of all his sermons. They have now been spread abroad in more than 100,000 copies, not only in Germany, but also in translations in France, England, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, and our own country. Speaking of his ability, Knapp (Leben r. L. Hofacker, Heidelb. 1852) says that he was the greatest and most powerful jjreacher of the Wurtemberg Church in this century. This opinion was confirmed by the celebrated F. "\V. Krummacher : " The Suabian Land lost in him its most powerfid preacher" (in his A ntobiogra- phy, transL by Easton, p. 207). A prayer-book, compiled from posthumous works of Hofackep and from his ser- mons {Erbanungs- vnd Gebelbiich fir alle Tage. Stutt- gard), appeared in 1869.- Herzog, Real-Encyklop. xix, 646 sq.
Hofacker, Wilhelra, a yomigrr brother of Lud- wig <q. v.), and. like him. a ccldiratcd preacher of the "Wurtemberg ( luircli. was born February 16, 1805. In 1828 he became assistant to his brother, who was then in failing health. After his decease he travelled through Northern Germany on a literary tour. From 1830-1833 he delivered lectures at the University of Tubingen on Dogmatics, based on the work of Nitzsch, piu-suing him- self at the same time a course of study. In 1833 he was appointed at "Waiblingen, and in Januarj-, 1836, at St. Leonard's, in Stuttgard, a church which his father and elder brother had ser\-ed before him. Here he died, Au- gust 10, 1848. Like his brother, he -was an earnest ser- vant of the Church of Christ, and a regular attendant at the Bible and Missionary meetings of the University students while at Tubingen, where he also was educated. He was a zealous defender of the orthodox doctrine of the divinity of Christ, asserting that modem science is more in harmony with the Christian doctrme of
HOFEL
290
HOFFMANN"
the orthodox Church than with the speculative theolo- gy of the Hegel-Strauss school. He published, besides a number of polemical articles in different tlieological periodicals, Tropfleiii cats (kr Lebensquelle (Stuttg. 1863 and 1864), and Fredit/tenfur alle Sonn- und Festtage (ib. 1853). Of his sermons liine editions have ah-eady been pubhshed. They contain a short biography ^mtten by Kapif, a German preacher, one of Hofacker's associates at Tubingen University. See Knapp, Leben von L. Hof- acker ; Hartmann, in Herzog, Real-Encyklop. xix, 649 sq. (J.H.W.)
Hofel, JoiiANX, a German lawyer, born at UfFen- heim in 1600, and educated at the universities of Stras- burg, Giessen, and Jena, deserves mention here on ac- count of his Musica Christiana (1634), and Historisches Gesanghuch (Schleusingen, 1681). He died in 1683.— Pierer, Univers. Lex. viii, 440.
Hofer, Joseph Anton, a German Roman Catholic priest, born at Kastelruth ]May 19, 1742, was educated at the University of Innspruck. In 1765 he was made priest, in 1722 professor of rhetoric and prefect of the Gymnasium at Brix, and in 1776 professor of ecclesias- tical law; here he remained, with an interruption of forn- years only, which he spent at Innspruck, until the discontinuance of the school in 1807, when he was pen- sioned, retaining, however, the title of an ecclesiastical councillor (Rath) of the government. He died in 1820. Hofer contributed several articles to periocUcal litera- ture. Of his published works, ConsjKcius Juris eccles. puUid (Brixen, 1781, 4to) entitles him to a position in theological literature. Hofer published several sermons which are of superior merit. Of these the following are perhaps the best : Ermahnungsrede am Titular/este Ma- rid (ib. 1793, 8vo) : — Kunstgriffe frommer Eltern z, Er- ziehung woUgesitt. Kinder (ib. 1794, 8vo) •.— Untrugliches Kennzeichen d. sittUch. Aufersteh. (ibid. 1798, 8vo). — Do- ring, Gelehrten Theolog. BeniscM. i, 746.