Augustin Emil Hofmann von Hofmannsthal
Augustin Emil Hofmann von Hofmannsthal was an Austrian industrialist.
Early life
Hofmann was born in Vienna, Austria on 26 January 1815. He was a younger son of Therese von Hofmannsthal and Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal. Among his siblings was Elise von Hofmannsthal.His father was a Jewish tobacco farmer who was made a member of the hereditary nobility, as "Edler von Hofmannsthal," by the Emperor of Austria in 1835.
Career
He was a silk breeder, factory owner, and the head of his father's subsidiary business-house in Milan. He was a recipient of the Cross of Merit of Austria-Hungary.Personal life
He converted to Catholicism and, on 5 May 1839, married Petronilla Antonia Cäcilia Ordioni in Milan. 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. Petronilla, a daughter of Anton Maria von Rhò and widow of Pietro Ordioni, was from an aristocratic Italian family. Together, they were the parents of:Hugo August Peter von Hofmannsthal, a director of the Boden-Credit-Anstalt who married Anna Maria Josefa Fohleutner, a daughter of Laurentz Fohleutner.- Sylvius Silvio Arvinius Leo von Hofmannsthal, an engineer who married Emerica Albertina "Emma" Burián von Rajecz, a member of an ancient Hungarian noble family.Guido von Hofmannsthal, an art collector and banker with Wiener Bankverein who married Franziska "Fanny" Opatalek-Treis in Bad Ischl in 1885.