Peter Hoffmann (historian)
Peter C. W. Hoffmann (born 1930) is a German-Canadian historian who is the William Kingsford Professor in the Department of History at McGill University. His principal area of research deals with the German resistance against Nazism, and in particular, the resistance efforts of Claus von Stauffenberg. Hoffmann lives in Canada and in Germany. Life. Hoffmann was born in Dresden, Germany, on 13 August 1930 and grew up in Stuttgart. He is the son of , a former director of the Wurtemberg State Library and University Library of Tübingen. After studying at the universities of Stuttgart, Tübingen, Zurich , Northwestern University and Munich he received his doctorate in 1961 from Franz Schnabel following his thesis defence on "The diplomatic relations between Wurtemberg and Bavaria from the Crimean War and the beginning of the Italian Crisis" ("Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen Württemberg und Bayern im Krimkrieg und bis zum Beginn der Italienischen Krise"). In 1965 he became a postdoctorate 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 at McGill and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada