Augustin Emil Hofmann von Hofmannsthal

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August Hofmann Edler von Hofmannsthal

Augustin Emil Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (26 January 1815 – 31 August 1881) was an Austrian industrialist.

Early life[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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]

Hofmannsthal died on 31 August 1881 at Krems in Lower Austria.[1]

Descendants[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ 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]
  2. ^ 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]
  3. ^ Beginning in 1901, he used the surname von Rhò as Guido von Rhò.[7]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d Weimarer historisch-genealoges Taschenbuch des gesamten Adels jehudäischen Ursprunges (in German). Kyffhäuser Verlag. 1912. p. 387. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Stimer, Herbert (19 September 1949). "Hofmannsthal's Background". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  4. ^ Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon; Bibliographisches Institut, Lexikonverlag, Mannheim/Wien/Zürich 1975, Band 7, S. 420.
  5. ^ a b Hofmannsthal, Hugo von (1968). Four Stories (in German). Oxford U.P. ISBN 978-0-19-832453-9. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Augustin von Hofmannsthal (1815-1881)". smb.museum-digital.de. Museum-digital. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  7. ^ a b Knight, Ellen (2015). HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL COMPLETE WORKS XXXVII APHORISTIC, AUTOBIOGRAPHIC, EARLY NOVEL PLANS (PDF). S. Fischer Verlag. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "Silvio von Hofmannsthal (1852-1921)". nat.museum-digital.de. Museum-digital. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  12. ^ "Guido von Rhò (geb. von Hofmannsthal) (1854-1925)". nat.museum-digital.de. Museum-digital. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ "POET'S WIDOW IS DEAD; Frau Hugo von Hofmannsthal Succumbs in London". The New York Times. 11 November 1959. Retrieved 15 March 2023.

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