Hoffmann, Alfred#
b. Linz-Urfahr (Upper Austria), April 11, 1904, d. Bad Ischl (Upper Austria), July 9, 1983, economic historian. Member of the Institute of Austrian History Research, from 1927 worked in Upper Austrian provincial archives (1957 director); 1961 head of the commission for economic, business and city history at the Austrian Academy of Sciences; 1961-1974 university professor of business and economic history at Vienna University. Continuing the work of A. Dopsch, researched mainly the business and economic history of the early modern age. Editor of the Oesterreichisches Staedtebuch.
Publications#
Wirtschaftsgeschichte des Landes Oberoesterreich, vol. 1, Werden, Wachsen, Reifen, 1952; Studien und Essays, ed. by A. Mosser, 2 vols., 1979.Literature#
E. Zoellner, A. H. Nachruf, in: Almanach der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 133, 1983.