Johann Joseph Hoffmann
German philologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Johann Joseph Hoffmann was a noted German scholar who studied the Japanese and Chinese languages. Biography Hoffmann was born at Würzburg in the Electorate of Bavaria. After studying at Würzburg, he went on the stage in 1825; but owing to an accidental meeting with the German traveller Philipp Franz von Siebold in July 1830, his interest was diverted to Oriental philology. From Siebold he acquired the rudiments of Japanese, and in order to take advantage of the instructions of Ko-ching-chang, a Chinese teacher whom Siebold had brought home with him, he made himself acquainted with Malay, the only language except Chinese which Ko-ching-chang could understand.
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