Education
He studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg and Freiburg, earning his doctorate with a thesis on nephritis saturnina.
He studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg and Freiburg, earning his doctorate with a thesis on nephritis saturnina.
In 1886 he opened a private clinic for orthopedics, physiotherapy and massage in Würzburg, where in 1895 he became an associate professor at the university. In 1902 he succeeded Julius Wolff (1836-1902) at the department of orthopedics in Berlin. Hoffa is remembered for introducing an operation for congenital hip dislocations (1890), as well as for development of a system of massage therapy (Hoffa system).
His name is associated with a condition known as "Hoffa"s fat pad disease", being characterized by chronic knee pain primarily beneath the patella.
In 1892 he founded the journal Zeitschrift fur orthopädische Chirurgie.