Eugene Augustus Hoffman (March 21, 1829 – June 17, 1902) was an American Episcopal clergyman.
Biography
Eugene Augustus Hoffman was born in New York City on March 21, 1829, the son of Samuel Verplanck Hoffman. He was educated at Columbia Grammar School, then Rutgers College and Harvard College where he received his A.B. in 1848. He later studied at the General Theological Seminary and was ordained a Deacon of the Episcopal Church in 1851 and Priest in 1853.
He held rectorships at Christ Church in Elizabeth, New Jersey from 1853–1863; St. Mary's Church in Burlington, New Jersey in 1863; Grace Church in Brooklyn Heights, New York from 1864–1869; and at St. Mark's Church in Philadelphia from 1869–1879. In 1879 he was appointed Dean of the General Theological Seminary in New York.
He was a man of great wealth and, with others of his family, heavily endowed this seminary. He built Christ Church and rectory at Elizabeth, and also churches at Woodbridge and Millburn, New Jersey.
Hoffman received an honorary Master of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1851. He received honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from Rutgers University in 1864, Racine College in 1882, General Theological Seminary in 1885, Columbia University in 1886, Trinity College in 1895, and University of Oxford in 1895. He received honorary Doctor of Law degrees from the University of the South in 1891, Trinity College, Toronto in 1893, and Doctor of Civil Law from King's College in 1893. He received a Doctor of Sacred Theology from Columbia in 1887.
Eugene Augustus Hoffman died in Manhattan on June 17, 1902.
Works
His writings include Free Churches (1858) and The Eucharistic Week (1859 and 1893).
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Further reading
Theodore M. Riley, Memorial Biography of E. A. Hoffman, two volumes, (New York, 1904) Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury