Cuno Hofer

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Cuno Hofer (born June 9, 1886 in Genoa ; † January 9, 1931 in St. Moritz ) was a Swiss lawyer and writer .

Life

Cuno Hofer grew up abroad and only came to Switzerland when he was fifteen. After graduating from high school, he studied law at the universities of Berlin , Bonn and Zurich , where he received his doctorate in law in 1910 . He then worked in the Swiss diplomatic service , taught as a private lecturer in international law at the University of Geneva and published the monthly magazine Schweizerland . From 1917 he processed his view of the First World War in essayistic and poetic form. After his marriage to the Hungarian Countess Dessewffy, Hofer lived at Bencsellö Castle in Hungary from 1919 . There he also wrote the development novel My Story and That of My Guests , which has strong autobiographical traits. - At the beginning of 1931 Hofer fell victim to a jealous drama in a hotel in St. Moritz when the Englishwoman Simone Boulter shot him with a pistol.

Works

  • Compensation in Land War Law , Zurich 1910 (Diss. Zurich 1910)
  • L'influence de J.-J. Rousseau sur le droit de la guerre , Genève [u. a.] 1916 (Lecture on obtaining the Venia legendi , Geneva 1914)
  • The Germs of the Great War , Zurich 1917
  • Switzerland's political position abroad , Bern 1917
  • The outbreak of the Great War , Zurich 1919
  • Hell's Game , Leipzig 1922
  • The aftermath of hell , Leipzig 1923
  • My story and that of my guests , Vienna 1929

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personal data
SURNAME Hofer, Cuno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Genoa
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1931
Place of death St. Moritz