Augustin Emil Hofmann von Hofmannsthal

Augustin Emil Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (26 January 1815 – 31 August 1881) was an Austrian industrialist.

[1] His father was a Jewish tobacco farmer who was made a member of the hereditary nobility,[2] as "Edler von Hofmannsthal," by the Emperor of Austria in 1835.

[6] He converted to Catholicism and, on 5 May 1839, married Petronilla Antonia Cäcilia (née von Rhò) Ordioni (1815–1898) in Milan.

[5] 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.

[b] Petronilla, a daughter of Anton Maria von Rhò and widow of Pietro Ordioni (who died in 1835), was from an aristocratic Italian family.