Albert Hoffa, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert Hoffa

German surgeon

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1859

Place of Birth: Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Date of Death: 31-Dec-1907

Profession: surgeon, university teacher

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Albert Hoffa (31 March 1859 – 31 December 1907) was a German surgeon, orthopedist and physiotherapist born in Richmond, Cape of Good Hope. He studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg and Freiburg, earning his doctorate with a thesis on nephritis saturnina.
In 1886, he opened a private clinic for orthopedics, physiotherapy and massage in Würzburg, where in 1895 he became an associate professor at the university.
In 1902 he succeeded Julius Wolff (1836-1902) at the department of orthopedics in Berlin.Hoffa is remembered for introducing an operation for congenital hip dislocations (1890), as well as for development of a system of massage therapy (Hoffa system).
His name is associated with a condition known as "Hoffa's fat pad disease", being characterized by chronic knee pain primarily beneath the patella.In 1892 he founded the journal Zeitschrift für orthopädische Chirurgie.