The New International Encyclopædia/Hoffory, (John Peter) Julius

HOFFORY, hṓ'fṓ-rḗ, (1855-97). A Danish-German philologist, phonetician, and Germanic scholar, born at Aarhus. He was educated at Copenhagen and Berlin. In 1886 he was made professor of Norse philology and phonetics at the University of Berlin. He wrote: Eddastudien (1889); &ldquo;Phonetische Streitfragen,&rdquo; in the Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung, vol. xxiii.; and Professor Sievers und die Principien der Sprachphysiologie (1884), both attacks on Sievers. He edited and translated into German some of Holberg's comedies under the title of Dänische Schaubühne (1885-87), and translated other Danish writings in Nordische Bibliothek (1889-91). He did much toward the introduction of Ibsen in Germany.