Augustin Emil Hofmann von Hofmannsthal

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. Among his siblings was Elise von Hofmannsthal (whose sister-in-law, Adelheid Herz, married Carl Mayer von Rothschild). 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.

Personal life He converted to Catholicism and, on 5 May 1839, married Petronilla Antonia Cäcilia ( von Rhò) Ordioni (1815–1898) 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. (As their eldest son, Hugo, was born in 1841, he was later legitimized per matrimonium subregnem.) Together, they were the parents of:

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). 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. Guido von Hofmannsthal (1854-1925), an art collector and banker with Wiener Bankverein who married Franziska "Fanny" Opatalek-Treis in Bad Ischl in 1885.

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