Hofmann, Johann Christian Konrad von

(1810–77)

   Theologian.

   Von Hofmann was born in Nuremburg, Germany, and was educated at the Universities of Erlangen and Berlin. For most of his career he taught at Erlangen. His books include Weissagung und Erfüllung, Der Schriftbeweis and Die Heilige Schrift. He is generally regarded as the most significant member of the Erlangen School. He denied that the atonement was effected by penal substitution – rather it was through Jesus’s maintenance of oneness with God even to his death. This caused considerable controversy, but von Hoffmann regarded himself as a faithful upholder of the doctrines of Martin Luther.

   M. Schellbach, Theologie und Philosophie bei von Hofmann (1935) [no English translation available].