Peter C. W. Hoffmann FRSC (13 August 1930 – 6 January 2023) was a German-Canadian historian who was the William Kingsford Professor[1] in the Department of History at McGill University.

Hoffmann was born in Dresden, Germany, on 13 August 1930 and grew up in Stuttgart.

[2] 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 Württemberg and Bavaria during the Crimean War and until the beginning of the Italian Crisis (Die diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen Württemberg und Bayern im Krimkrieg und bis zum Beginn der Italienischen Krise).

In 1970 he took up a teaching position on German History at McGill University in Montreal.

Hoffmann was the William Kingsford Professor of History at McGill and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.