Albert Hoffa | |
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| Born | 31 March 1859 |
| Died | 31 December 1907 (aged 48) |
| Education | Marburg University University of Freiburg |
Albert Hoffa (31 March 1859 – 31 December 1907) was a German surgeon, orthopedist and physiotherapist born in Richmond, Cape of Good Hope.
He studied medicine at Marburg University and the University of Freiburg, earning his doctorate with a thesis on nephritis saturnina (lead nephropathy).
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 developing a system of massage therapy (Hoffa system). His name is further associated with an anatomical structure, Hoffa's fat pad, and a condition affecting it, known as "Hoffa's fat pad disease", characterized by chronic knee pain primarily beneath the patella.
In 1892 he founded the journal Zeitschrift für orthopädische Chirurgie.
