Leipzig · d. 1725
Historical maker
Named in 2 books.
What the books printed
A dictionary of violin makers, Stainer, C. (Cecie). London; New York: Novello, Ewer, 1896. Page 48, scan 56.
Hoffmann, Martin, d. in Leipzig, 1725. A maker of good lutes and viols, who worked in Leipzig from about 1685. He also made violins and violoncellos …
A dictionary of violin makers, Stainer, C. (Cecie). London: Novello, n.d. Page 48, scan 58.
Hoffmann, Martin, d. in Leipzig, 1725. A maker of good lutes and viols, who worked in Leipzig from about 1685. He also made violins and violoncellos …
- Entries from 2 books stand under this name, and we are not sure they mean the same person. That is on hold until somebody settles it.
Same name
Whether any of these is the same person, the books do not say. 12 more Hoffmann pages under H.
Same town, same time
18 other Leipzig makers have a year in the 1700s. A few of them:
- 1718 to 1787 Hunger, C. F.
- 1718 to 1787 Hunger, Christoph Friedrich
- 1723 Handenberg, Wilhelm
- 1725 Hoffmann, M.
- about 1730 Hofmann, J.-C.
- 1740 Glandenberg, Heinrich Wilhelm