Peter Hoffmann (historian)


Peter C.W. Hoffmann, FRSC 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, 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. 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.

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