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Portrait of Paula Beer Hofmann.
No full textProfile view of the sitter's head.Paula (Pauline) Lissy was born in Vienna, Austria in 1879. In 1897 she married the Austrian Jewish dramatist and poet, Richard Beer-Hofmann. Paula Beer-Hofmann died in Switzerland in 1939.The Austrian painter Hans Schlesinger (1875-1932) was the brother-in-law of the poet and author Hugo von Hofmannsthal.Digital imag
Paula : [Portraits of Paula Beer-Hofmann].
No full textThe name "Paula" is written in gold on the hard cover of this album. The photographs depict Paula Beer-Hofmann as a teenager and in her twenties, dressed in various outfits, sometimes with her hair up, other times with her hair down, sometimes in hats, sometimes with her daughter Miriam. Profile portraits and forward-facing portraits are included. Inscriptions on the photographs note Paula's age and the location, where the photograph was taken, most commonly in Vienna. Some photographs were taken in Atelier d’Ora in Vienna, others by Perscheid in Berlin.The following photographs are included in this album: F 10015, F 10016, F 10017, F 10018, F 10019, F 10020, F 10021, F 10022, F 10023, F 10024, F 10024A, F 10025, F 10026, F 10027, F 10028, F 10029, F 10030, F 10031, F 10032, F 10033, F 10034, F 10035, F 10036, F 10037, F 10038, F 10039, F 10040, F 10041, F 10042Paula (Pauline) Lissy was born in Vienna, Austria in 1879. In 1897 she married the author Richard Beer-Hofmann; their daughter Miriam Beer-Hofmann Lens was born in the same year.Digital Imag
Death of Murad Hofmann: Some thoughts and recollections
No full textBorn a Catholic in Germany’s Aschaffenburg, Hofmann began his university education at Union College in New York in 1951. Then he studied law at Munich and Harvard Universities with a PhD in jurisprudence from the former in 1957 and a Master of Law from Harvard Law School in 1960. A prolific author of about a dozen books and an eloquent speaker, Hofmann embraced Islam in 1980, performed hajj in 1992 and describes his hajj experiences and his thoughts and reflections on various aspects of Islam in Journey to Makkah
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