Augustin Emil Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (26 January 1815 – 31 August 1881) was an Austrian industrialist.
Early life
Hofmann was born in Vienna, Austria on 26 January 1815.[1] He was a younger son of Therese (née Schefteles) von Hofmannsthal and Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal.[1] Among his siblings was Elise von Hofmannsthal (whose sister-in-law, Adelheid Herz, married Carl Mayer von Rothschild).[1]
His father was a Jewish tobacco farmer who was made a member of the hereditary nobility,[2] as "Edler von Hofmannsthal," by the Emperor of Austria in 1835.[3][a]
Career
He was a silk breeder, factory owner, and the head of his father's subsidiary business-house in Milan.[5] He was a recipient of the Cross of Merit of Austria-Hungary.[6]
Personal life
He converted to Catholicism and, on 5 May 1839, married Petronilla Antonia Cäcilia (née von Rhò) Ordioni (1815–1898) in Milan.[5] The marriage was later found to be invalid due to a legal defect when it was conducted, so they married again Vienna on 8 April 1850.[b] Petronilla, a daughter of Anton Maria von Rhò and widow of Pietro Ordioni (who died in 1835), was from an aristocratic Italian family.[8] Together, they were the parents of:[9]
- Hugo August Peter von Hofmannsthal (1841–1915), a director of the Boden-Credit-Anstalt who married Anna Maria Josefa Fohleutner, a daughter of Laurentz Fohleutner (whose family came to Vienna from the Sudetenland via Bavaria).[10]
- Sylvius Silvio Arvinius Leo von Hofmannsthal (1852–1921), an engineer who married Emerica Albertina "Emma" Burián von Rajecz, a member of an ancient Hungarian noble family.[11]
- Guido von Hofmannsthal (1854-1925),[c] an art collector and banker with Wiener Bankverein who married Franziska "Fanny" Opatalek-Treis in Bad Ischl in 1885.[12][13][14]
Hofmannsthal died on 31 August 1881 at Krems in Lower Austria.[1]
Descendants
Through his son Hugo, he was a grandfather of Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), an Austrian novelist, librettist, and dramatist, and great-grandfather of writer Raimund von Hofmannsthal (1906–1974).[15]
Notes
- ^ Edler was, until 1919, the lowest rank of nobility in Austria-Hungary and Germany, just beneath a Ritter (hereditary knight), but above untitled nobles, who used only the nobiliary particle von before their surnames.[4]
- ^ As their eldest son, Hugo, was born in 1841, he was later legitimized per matrimonium subregnem.[6] He, therefore, used the surname von Rhò from birth, but beginning in 1850, he used the surname von Hofmannsthal.[7]
- ^ Beginning in 1901, he used the surname von Rhò as Guido von Rhò.[7]
References
- ^ a b c d Weimarer historisch-genealoges Taschenbuch des gesamten Adels jehudäischen Ursprunges (in German). Kyffhäuser Verlag. 1912. p. 387. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ Hofmannsthal, Hugo von; Degenfeld-Schonburg, Grafin Ottonie; Barcel, W. Eric (2000). The Poet and the Countess: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal's Correspondence with Countess Ottonie Degenfeld. Camden House. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-57113-030-3. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
- ^ Stimer, Herbert (19 September 1949). "Hofmannsthal's Background". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon; Bibliographisches Institut, Lexikonverlag, Mannheim/Wien/Zürich 1975, Band 7, S. 420.
- ^ a b Hofmannsthal, Hugo von (1968). Four Stories (in German). Oxford U.P. ISBN 978-0-19-832453-9. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ a b "Augustin von Hofmannsthal (1815-1881)". smb.museum-digital.de. Museum-digital. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ a b Knight, Ellen (2015). HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL COMPLETE WORKS XXXVII APHORISTIC, AUTOBIOGRAPHIC, EARLY NOVEL PLANS (PDF). S. Fischer Verlag. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ Rider, Jacques Le (3 January 2013). Les juifs viennois à la Belle Epoque (in French). Albin Michel. p. 211. ISBN 978-2-226-28470-9. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ Raponi, Elena (2002). Hofmannsthal e l'Italia: fonti italiane nell'opera poetica e teatrale di Hugo von Hofmannsthal (in Italian). Vita e Pensiero. p. 291. ISBN 978-88-343-0888-2. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ Kovach, Thomas A. (2002). A Companion to the Works of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal. Camden House. ISBN 978-1-57113-215-4. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ "Silvio von Hofmannsthal (1852-1921)". nat.museum-digital.de. Museum-digital. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ "Guido von Rhò (geb. von Hofmannsthal) (1854-1925)". nat.museum-digital.de. Museum-digital. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ Rychlik, Otmar (1994). Gäste: grosse Welt in Bad Vöslau : zur Ausstellung in den historischen Räumen des Schlosses Sommer und Herbst 1994 (in German). Stadtgemeinde Bad Vöslau. p. 225. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
- ^ Kaluga, M von Katja (2018). Hofmannsthal : Jahrbuch ; zur europäischen Moderne ; im Auftr. der Hugo von Hofmannsthal-Gesellschaft hrsg. Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg. p. 38. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
- ^ "POET'S WIDOW IS DEAD; Frau Hugo von Hofmannsthal Succumbs in London". The New York Times. 11 November 1959. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
External links
- August Hofmann Edler von Hofmannsthal portrait, 1850 (at the Frankfurt Goethe Museum).
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