Background
He was born and died in Augsburg.
He was born and died in Augsburg.
From the year of his fifth birthday Gerhard Adam Neuhofer attended the Street.Anna Gymnasium (school) in the city, where he remained a pupil till 1791. Another was Wolfgang Jäger who died shortly after Neuhofer completed his studies and returned to Augsburg in May 1795.
Neuhofer"s father, Georg Christoph Neuhofer (1734-1796) was an Augsburg cotton worker He moved away between 1791 and 1795 to enroll at the University of Altdorf where the scope of his studies covered Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Philosophy and Theology. Neuhofer promptly composed a detailed obituary of Jäger.
In 1795 he passed his Theology exams at Augsburg and became a Catechist in a House of correction (Zuchthaus), moving on in January 1799 to a so-called "Pestilentiarius".
This involved extensive work in military hospitals in 1799 and 1800 which provided him with good experience, but it also imperiled his life through frequent exposure to infectious diseases. In January 1703 he became an "Adjunkt" in a hosptial and in March 1705 he was appointed deacon at Augsburg"s Barfüßerkirche.
The next year, in January 1706, he was installed as deacon at Street James"s (Street Jakob). In 1807 he took a teaching post at his old school, giving lessons in Greek, Hebrew and History.
However, it appears that by this time his health was beginning to falter, and in 1809 he was obliged to give up his teaching work on health grounds.
He was appointed deacon at Saint Anna"s in 1813. In addition, during these years Neuhofer worked tirelessly on his writing, while also contributing to the "Morgenblatt für gebildete Leser" ("Morning news sheet for educated readers") published by Johann Friedrich Cotta. Her father was the minister in charge at Street James"s (Street Jakob)"s church.
A few months later, on 12 December 1816, Neuhofer himself died unexpectedly at his home from what was described as a "nervous attack" (einem "Nervenschlag"), shortly after delivering a tutorial to students.