Peter Hoffmann (historian)

Peter Hoffmann in 2008

Peter C.W. Hoffmann (born 13 August 1930, in Dresden) is a German-Canadian professor of history at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His principal area of research deals with the German Resistance against National Socialism, and in particular, the resistance efforts of Claus von Stauffenberg. Hoffmann lives in Canada and in Germany.

Life

Hoffmann was born in Dresden and grew up in Stuttgart, Germany. He is the son of Wilhelm Hoffmann, the future Director of the Wurtemberg State Library. After studying at the universities of Stuttgart, Tübingen, Zurich, Northwestern University and Munich he received his PhD in 1961 from Franz Schnabel following his thesis defense on The diplomatic relations between Wurtemberg and Bavaria from the Crimean War and the beginning of the Italian Crisis (Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen Württemberg und Bayern im Krimkrieg und bis zum Beginn der Italienischen Krise). In 1965 he became a postdoc at the University of Northern Iowa. In 1970 he took up a teaching position on German History at McGill University in Montreal. Hoffmann is the William Kingsford Professor of History and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Works

ISBN 978-3-412-21024-3.

Literature

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Individual references

  1. see also Joachim Kuhn and the Rezension by Hanne Stinshoff at H-Soz-Kult
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