Jan Hoffman

Jan Hoffman (11 June 1906 – 25 October 1995) was a Polish pianist and music educator.

He continued his studies in Berlin with Egon Petri and worked in Lviv, teaching music at the school of Sabina Kasparek.

Near the outbreak of World War II, he gave private lessons in Kraków, Bielsko and Lviv.

In 1941 he was an associate professor in the Krakow Conservatory, but during the war years, he hid from the Nazis, teaching, performing and conducting works by contemporary Polish composers secretly.

After the war, Hoffman was among the co-founders of the State Higher School of Music in Kraków (after 1979 the Academy of Music), and served at the school in a number of position, including dean, department head, vice-rector and president from 1966 to 1968.