Stanley hoffman biography

  • Stanley Hoffmann (27 November – 13 September ) was a French political scientist and the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at.
  • Stanley Hoffmann was a French political scientist and the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University, specializing in French politics and society, European politics, U.S. foreign policy, and international relations.
  • Hoffmann was born in Vienna in November of an Austrian mother, who happened to be Jewish though not very observant, and an American father, from whom his.

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    Stanley Hoffmann †

    Biography

    Founding Chairman of CES (–), Stanley Hoffmann was Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard. His publications included Gulliver’s Troubles (), Decline or Renewal? France Since the Thirties (), Primacy or World Order (), Duties Beyond Borders (), Janus and Minerva (), The European Sisyphus (), Ethics and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention (), World Disorders (), L’Amerique vraiment imperial? (), Gulliver Unbound (), and Chaos and Violence (). He also collaborated on Rousseau and Freedom (), co-edited with Christie McDonald. Hoffmann passed away at the age of 86 on September 13, CES celebrated the life of Stanley Hoffmann at a memorial service held at Memorial Church. View details of the tribute here.

    Affiliations

    • Founding Chairman (), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
     

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    Le Professeur

    September 14,  


    Buttenwieser University Professor emeritus Stanley Hoffmann, a renowned scholar of international relations, American foreign policy, and French and European politics who spent his early teens hiding from the Gestapo in Vichy France, died in Cambridge on September 13 after a long illness. During his 58 years on the Harvard faculty, beginning in as an instructor in the department of government, he helped found the honors undergraduate concentration Social Studies (), served as founding chairman of what became the Gunzburg Center for European Studies (), taught legendary courses on “War” and “Political Doctrines and Society: Modern France” to thousands of undergraduates, and mentored hundreds of doctoral students.

    As a teacher drawing on his own scholarship, he also helped hold the University together. In April , during the tense meeting in Memorial Church that followed the police bust of students occupying University Hall, he was one of the

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    Tribute to Stanley Hoffmann, the most French of American political scientists

    Stanley Hoffmann, the most French of American political scientists, died last weekend aged He was at his home in the US, the land that welcomed him in as a visiting graduate student from Sciences Po and, shortly after, as a young professor.

    Born in Vienna and raised in Paris, Hoffman had to flee the capital in , two days before the arrival of the Nazi armies which had already forced him to leave Austria.

    It was this background, in his view, which destined him to focus on politics and international relations when he began studying at Sciences Po in , quickly becoming one of the university’s most outstanding students. As he wrote in an autobiographical essay in , “It wasn’t I who chose to study world politics. World politics forced themselves on me at a very early stage”. 

    While he pursued this passion for world affairs at Harvard all his life, it never supplanted his interest in French politics, of whic

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