CHAPTER LXXIII 

 FREDERICK L. HOFFMAN, LL.D. 



VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQIJ TO 



FREDERICK L. HOFFMAN, the son of Augustus F. and 

 Antoinette von Laar Hoffman, was born May 2, 1865, at 

 Varel, Germany. He received his education in private and 

 public schools, equivalent to what might be considered here a 

 grammar school grade. This brilliant statistician very frankly 

 admitted to the author that he never graduated from any school, 

 and was almost always the last in his class and a grade or two 

 behind. He came to the United States in 1884, and, after a varied 

 commercial career, entered the business of life insurance with the 

 Metropolitan Company at Somerville and Waltham, Mass., in 

 1888. He remained with that company for some years, then 

 changed to the Life Insurance Company of Virginia, and in 1895 

 accepted a position with the Prudential Insurance Company. 



In 1900 Mr. Hoffman had charge of the Prudential's Exhibit in 

 Paris and in 1904 received the Grand Prix on life insurance meth- 

 ods and results contributed to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 

 In 1906 he represented the United States Government at the 

 International Actuarial Congress held in Vienna and the Inter- 

 national Statistical Institute held in Paris that year. Ever since 

 Mr. Hoffman has been active in various international statistical 

 and also tuberculosis congresses. He is a member of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the Royal 

 Anthropological Institute, the Society of Arts, the Royal Sani- 

 tary Institute, etc. He is an honorary member of the Swiss 

 Actuarial Society and an associate fellow of the American Medical 

 Association. In 1911 Tulane University conferred upon Mr. 

 Hoffman together with the late Major General Gorgas the honor- 

 ary degree of LL.D. in recognition of the services rendered to the 

 cause of southern sanitation and mortality research. 



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