HOFFMEISTER, JOHANN. — Augustinian preacher and controversialist, b. ca. 1509 and d. 21 Aug. 1547. He embraced religious life early, studied at Mainz and Freiburg in Br.; prior at Colmar in 1533, provincial in 1543, he was appointed by Seripando in 1546 vicar general for the German provinces. From 1530 until his death he labored tirelessly for the preservation of the faith in Germany and for Catholic reform, earning the name of “Anti-Luther” and the praise and friendship of St. Peter Canisius.
He wrote: Canones ad interpretandas s. Bibliorum scripturas (Mainz 1545); Dialogorum libri duo (Ingolstadt 1546); Loci communes rerum theologicarum (11th ed., Antwerp 1546).
BIBL.: J. F. Ossinger, Biblioth. august., Ingolstadt 1768, pp. 445–51; N. Paulus, Der Augustiner J. H., Freiburg in Br. 1891; H. Jedin, Seripando, I, Würzburg 1937, pp. 216–18; II, there 1937, p. 667. David Gutiérrez