Background
Hoffman, Frederick Ludwig was born on May 2, 1865 in Varel, N. Germany. Son of Augustus Franciscus and Antoinette (von Laar) Hoffman.
Hoffman, Frederick Ludwig was born on May 2, 1865 in Varel, N. Germany. Son of Augustus Franciscus and Antoinette (von Laar) Hoffman.
Common school and private education in Germany. Doctor of Laws, Tulane University, 1911.
Consultant statistician of Prudential Insurance Company of America, 1894-1934. Consultant statistician Biochemical Research Foundation of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, to 1938. Retired. Ex-president American Statistical Association.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Statistical Society, Royal Anthropology
Institute; honorary corresponding member Actuarial Society Switzerland. Associate fellow American Medical Association.
Associate member American Academy Medicine. Honorary member National Institute Homæpathy, German Cancer Research Society.
Charter member National Tuberculosis Association.
Director American Public Health Association, American Society Control of Cancer. Member National Safety Council, Safety Institute of America, American League to Abolish Capital Punishment (vice president). Honorary president National Malaria Society, 1944.
Director National Foundation for Care of Advanced Cancer Patients, 1944.
Member Actuarial Society Switzerland. Member American Academy Medicine. Member National Institute Homæpathy, German Cancer Research Society.
Member National Safety Council, Safety Institute of America, American League to Abolish Capital Punishment (vice president).
Married Ella G. Hay; children: Ella, Frances, Armstrong, Virginia, Gilbert Hay, Barbara, Victoria.