SE - Rev. J. Hoffmann - Lutheran Mission, Kibwezi - May 1910

North - Leipzig Evangelical Lutheran Mission; Jimba Mission Dec 1888; Ikutha Mission 3 days' journey west of Kibwezi; arr. Zanzibar from Mombasa with wife 8/3/1895; wife dep. for Naples 16/3/1895; Ikutha Oct. 1897

Drumkey 1909 - Evangelical Lutheran Mission of Leipzig - Rev. J. Hofman

EAHB 1906 - Revd. J. Hofmann - Ikutha

Gazette - Issued with Bird Licence at Mombasa during semester ending 30/6/1902 - Rev Mr Hofmann [sic]

EAHB 1904 - Kitui Residents - Hofmann, Revd. Johannes - Missionary, Ikutha, Kitui

Red Book 1912 - J. Hofmann - Machakos

Fitzgerald - Meteorological observations at Mbungu 1891-95.

EAHB 1905 - at Ikutha

Daily Nation 21 May 2019 Co-founder of Africa Inland Church at Ikutha, Kitui. Hofmann, who had been sent by the Evangelical Lutheran Mission of Leipzig in South West Germany, founded the giant AIC in Kenya from the remote township. He died of malaria mid-1914 alongside his wife, four children and a white househelp — and they’re buried in the compound of the church they helped build. Besides, local pastors say, he introduced the taking of tea as a breakfast beverage, a practice that took root to become an almost sacrosanct culture among the church ranks and beyond. Before the missionaries’ arrival at Ikutha, the local community knew nothing about tea, only taking porridge or milk. Speaking sign language through an interpreter, Hofmann lived a normal life in Ukambani where local elders donated land to the Ikutha church. “He used to ride a mule and spoke a language people thought was godly. He was a white man and because of his skin colour, local people thought he was a god,” reads part of the memoirs kept by the parish. Ikutha AIC parish has raised money towards a project whose aim is to preserve the founder missionaries’ graveyard, the houses they lived in and the maiden AIC church building they built towards the close of the 18th century. “Part of the money would go towards the restoration, beautification and preservation of Hofmann’s burial site,” Pastor Joel said.

Drumkey - as J. Hopman

See also Gunther Hoffmann

www.leipziger-missionswerk.de/ueber-uns/unsere-mitarbeitenden/detail-mitarbeiter.htm Johannes Hofmann was born on December 15, 1866 in Weißenbrunn in Lower Franconia as the son of a forester. After completing elementary school, he was educated as a private student from 1879 to 1882. At Easter 1882 he entered the missionary institution in Neuendettelsau. He passed the final examination at Christmas 1885 and, after extensive preparations, was ordained together with missionary Bach in Hersbruck on August 1, 1886 and seconded to the Wakamba people in East Africa (today Kenya). He founded the Jimba station with missionary Bach on September 28, 1886 and the Mbungu station on December 7, 1887. On November 1, 1892, he married Emilie Itzerott in Schweinshaupten. He then worked in Ikutha, was taken prisoner of war and was transported home on the ship “Golconde” in the spring of 1916.
Hofmann joined the secretariat of the Leipzig Mission at home on December 1, 1916 and remained active in the secretariat even after the war. He retired on October 1, 1932. In retirement, he worked on a voluntary basis to create the “Missionary Book”, which handwritten all personal details up to the 100th anniversary of the Leipzig Mission in 1936. On December 21, 1946, he died of a heart attack in Bad Kissingen.