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Andreas Joseph Hofmann
German philosopher and revolutionary · Germany · On the map · Academics · Lived 1752 to 1849 · aged 97
Andreas Joseph Hofmann was a German philosopher and revolutionary active in the Republic of Mainz.
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The Deutschhaus building in Mainz, where Hofmann proclaimed the republic, now seat of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate
Former Jesuit college in Würzburg, now the Catholic seminary
The Mainz Jacobin club in 1792, by Johann Jacob Hoch
Title page of Der Aristokraten-Katechismus, published 1792
Map of the département Mont-Tonnerre, by Louis Brion 1802About this person
As Chairman of the Rhenish-German National Convention, the earliest parliament in Germany based on the principle of popular sovereignty, he proclaimed the first republican state in Germany, the Rhenish-German Free State, on 18 March 1793. A strong supporter of the French Revolution, he argued for an accession of all German territory west of the Rhine to France and served in the administration of the department Mont-Tonnerre under the French Directory and the French Consulate.
