Jabarkan Kehidupan awal dari Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Hofmannsthal lahir di Landstraße, Wina, sebagai putra dari ibu Kristen Austria kelas atas, Anna Maria Josefa Fohleutner (1852–1904), dan manajer bank Kristen Austria–Italia Hugo August Peter Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1841–1915).

Kakek buyutnya, Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal, yang berasal dari keluarga yang mewarisi gelar bangsawan "Edler von Hofmannsthal", adalah seorang petani tembakau Yahudi yang diangkat menjadi bangsawan oleh kaisar Austria.

Broch, Hermann (Author), Steinberg, Michael P. (Translator). Hugo von Hofmannsthal and His Time: The European Imagination, 1860–1920, University Of Chicago Press, 1984, .

Burks, Marlo (translator, introduction). Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Writings on Art / Schriften zur Kunst. German and English. German texts in English translation, Volume II. Hans-Günther Schwarz and Norman R. Diffey (editors). Iudicium, 2017. Translation of and introduction to Hofmannsthal's writings on visual art.

Gottfried, Paul. "Hugo von Hoffmannsthal and the Interwar European Right." Modern Age 49.4 (2007): 508+ online.

Junk, Anke. Andreas oder Die Vereinigten von Hugo von Hofmannsthal – eine kulturpsychoanalytische Untersuchung. Hannover, Impr. Henner Junk, 2015, .

McClatchy, J. D. (editor). The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Princeton University Press, 2008, . Chapter 1 contains a brief biography.

Schorske, Carl E. Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture, 1980.

Stork, Charles Wharton. The Lyrical Poems of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, 1918.

Weiss, Winifred. Comparative Literature. Vol 25, no. 1. (Winter, 1973) pp. 60–67

An Impossible Man (Der Schwierige) translated with an introduction by Alexander Stillmark (Modern Humanities Association, Cambridge, 2016, ).

HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL, SELECT NARRATIVE PROSE, Translated with an Introduction by ALEXANDER STILLMARK,Ariadne Press, Riverside, CA, 2020.