Hoefer, Ferdinand

The pioneers in the history of chemistry, J. F. Gmelin, Thomas Thomson, Ferdinand Hoefer and Herman Kopp, devoted much able and serious labor to the early developments in the growth of the science. Later historians of the science have laid the emphasis upon the more modern development, and have depended largely upon the earlier histories for their summaries of early chemists. 

Finally, several older histories of chemistry have recently appeared as reprints. One is a classic from 1866 and 1869, the famous Histoire de la chimie of Ferdinand Hoefer, reprinted in 1980.26 Another is the Clows classic of 1952, The Chemical Revolution.27 It does not deal with the Lavoisierian transformation of chemistry (as might have been expected) but with the revolutionary changes in applied chemistry that made the Industrial Revolution possible. 

Ferdinand Hoefer, Nomenclature et classifications chimiques (Paris Bailli re, 1845). The text was translated into Spanish in 1853. See infra. 

Ferdinand Hoefer, Nomenclatura y clasificaciones quimicas. . . (Madrid Manuel Gil, 1853), 151. 

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