Richard Beer-Hofmann

His mother died within a week of his birth and after her death, he was adopted and reared by his uncle and his aunt, Bertha and Alois Hofmann.

He spent his early childhood in Brno, Moravia, where Alois Hofmann owned a textile factory.

In the same year of his graduation, he became acquainted with the writers Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Hermann Bahr and Arthur Schnitzler, with whom he shared a long friendship and membership in the Junge Wien (Young Vienna) literary movement.

Richard Beer-Hofmann's as well as his daughter's papers can be found in the Leo Baeck Institute Archives.

Sheirich's collection sheds light on Beer-Hofmann's preparation for discussing Jewish topics in his works as well as his daughter's efforts to keep her father's as one of the most important modern literary author's memory.