Official of the local government of Brno in Moravia, Moravian historian.
Hoffer`s correspondence, into which he entered with the councils of Moravian towns in order to obtain sufficient material from which to work up his history of Moravia, contains numerous references to and citations of Comenius` Moravian Antiquities, and together with the work of other Moravian historians (Tomáš Pešina of Čechorod, Jan Jiří Středovský) provides evidence for the existence of Comenius` historical work.
Bibliography:
Velčovská, Libuše: Dějiny Moravy D. J. I. Hoffera a ztracené Komenského Moravské starožitnosti.
In: Studia Comeniana et historica II, 1972, 4, pp23-31.