Biographical dictionary of medallists: coin, gem, and seal-engravers, mint-masters, &c., ancient and modern, with references to their works B. C. 500-A. D. 1900; compiled by L. Forrer ...

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He was born in I 83. At the Dresden Kunstgewerbe Ausstellung
1906, he showed several medals, and at the Berlin Exhibition of
Fine Arts 1907 the following medallic productions: Professor Kuhl;
-Genius; - Apiculture; - Head of a gentleman; Child's
head; - Child with an apple; - The Artist's parents; - Exhibition medal of Zwickau; - Card players; - Ski-walker;
Rower; - Medal of Merit of the Vaterlandischer Frauenverein"
at Konigshiitte (1910); - Portrait-medal of Dr K6rner.
By him are a series of medals relating to the European War of
I9I4-1915: Medallion, cast bronze, 90 mill.: Hercules fighting
serpents; Siege of Tsingtau, I914; - The Cruiser Emden,
9 I4; - Loss of the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leipzig and Nuirnberg,
8. Dec. 1914; - Taking of Antwerp, io October 19iI; - Capitulation of Maubeuge, 7.9. I914; - To the German Army;Victory of Craonne, 26. January 1915 (with bust of Frederick
Augustus III., king of Saxony); - Capt. Otto Weddingen, I914 -15;- The New Year 19r6; A. 33 mill.; - S.M.S. Dresden,
14. March 1915; AR 30 mill.; -The Cruiser Emden, 19 14; ZR
3o mill.; - The Cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Leip7ig and
Nurnberg, 8. December I914; AR 30 mill.; - Hercules fighting
Monsters, I914; fi 90 mill.; - To the German Army; R. 36
mill.; - Relief of Lemberg, 22. June 915; AR 28 mill.; - Capture of Liege, 7. Aug. 1914; AR 30 mill.; - Capitulation of
Maubeuge; AR 30 mill.; - Defeat of the Narew Army in the
Mazurian lakes, 1914; A 28 mill.;- The Winter Battle, 8-r7
Febr. I915; - Capture of Novo-Georgiewsk, 20 Aug. I915; R.
28 mill.; - Relief of Przemysl, 3. June I9I5; JR 28 mill.; -
To the Defenders of Tsingtau, r914; A- 30 mill.; Naval Battle
on the Skagerrak, 31.5.1.6. I916; iron, 76 mill.
HOY, NIELS (Dan.). Mint-warden at Altona, I784, I788.
HOFER, PETER (Autstr.). Assistant-engraver at Carlsburg, 1766 -i773.
HOFFNUNG (Germ.). Medallist at Toronto, circ. i860, in which
year he engraved a commemorative medal of the Inauguration of
the Victoria Bridge of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada (2 var.).
HOFMANN, ALFRED (Austr.). Contemporary Sculptor of Vienna,
by whom is a Souvenir Plaquette of the ' Bodenkultur-Hochschule'
in Vienna, I913, and a Memorial medal of Prince George William,
Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, I9I2 (signed A.H.); - Archduke Eugene, 9 14-1915; iron, 4o mill.; - Conrad Baron von
Hotzendorf, Chief of the Austrian Headquarter Staff; iron, 40 mill.
HOFMANN, GEORG FRANZ (B. D.M., Vol. II, p. 5 3). He died in
171I 3, and was a relative of the Viennese Engraver Johann Michael
Hoffmann. He worked at the Mints of Breslau, Oppeln and Briey.