Emanuel Hoffmann (4 May 1896 – 3 October 1932) was a Swiss jurist and art collector and the son of

Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, later Fritz Hoffmann-von der Mühll (1868 1920), was a Swiss businessman who founded the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-LaRoche & Co. Early life Hoffmann was born in Basel, Switzerland (french: link=no, Bâle) o ...

, a founder of the pharmaceutical company

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(also known as Roche)

Biography

He attended the humanist gymnasium in

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, Switzerland, and studied law at the Universities of Basel and Bern. In 1921 he married Maja Stehlin. Since 1921 he worked at the families company Roche in Basel, between 1925 and 1930 he was in charge of the companies branch in

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. In Belgium, he and his wife began to collect art from painters like

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. In 1930 he returned to Basel, where from 1932 onwards he was a vice-director at the headquarters of Roche in Basel. In 1932 he was elected the president of the Art Association of Basel. The same year, he died from a car accident.

Personal life

In 1921 he married Maja Stehlin with who he had two sons and one daughter.Wanner, Gustaf Adolf (1968), p.48 His son Lukas Hoffmann was best known for being a co-founder of the

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Legacy

After his death, his surviving wife Maja Hoffmann established the which according to her, would continue what was important to her late husband.

References

Swiss jurists 1932 deaths 1896 births Swiss art collectors {{art-stub