Frédéric Georges Hoffherr (ca. 1888 — October 11, 1956[1][2]) was a French-American professor, author and anti-Vichy activist.
Hoffherr was a professor emeritus and led the French department at Barnard College.[2] He joined the Columbia[3] faculty in 1919, promoted to an "assistant professorship of French" in 1926,[4] the following year, he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship.[5] He was chairman of the French department from 1927 to 1936.[1] Hoffherr retired in 1953,[6] but had been a special lecturer until 1955.[1]
During WWII Hoffherr worked for de Gaulle,[2] serving as head of press and information services for him and broadcast for the Voice of America.[1] He was of the founders of France Forever,[7][8][9][10] becoming its publicity director[8][11] and later its executive vice-president.[12]
He made use of the WRUL radio station[13] since the beginning of 1941. Of his radio addresses in 1942, were published in a book.[14]
Hoffherr had directed the editorship of L'évolution de la littérature française; petit traité à l'usage des étudiants américains,[15] wrote a foreword for A Mystery Story of Napoleon's Court,[16] had authored: the Basic College French;[17] French Language Chrestomaties and reader;[18] and the Book of Friendship: Le Livre de L'amitié.[19]
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