Hof, a town of Bavaria, on the Saale, 40 m. NE. of Baireuth; has flourishing textile factories, breweries, and iron-works; is associated with the early struggles of Jean Paul Richter.
Population (circa 1900) given as 25,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hodson, Major William * Hofer, Andreas