Time magazine 1938 man of the year5/22/2023 In 1951 Hoffmann left London to follow her husband to a posting abroad. Initially appointed secretary at the magazine in 1938, in less than a decade Hoffmann rose swiftly through the ranks, serving as acting editor from 1944 to 1945, and as assistant editor from 1946 to 1950. The daughter of a Czech-Jewish family living in Germany through the 1920s, Hoffmann arrived in London in 1934, weeks after completing her doctorate in Nazi-controlled Munich. The art historian Edith Hoffmann (born 1907, lives in Jerusalem) stands among the most prolific contributors to the London-based arts journal the Burlington Magazine, having written some 150 pieces for the magazine over the course of her sixty-year career.
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