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Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1759, Prostiboř, nearby Stříbro and Kladruby - 1849, Vienna), a Jewish Czech-Austrohungarian industrialist, moved 1792 to Vienna
During the famine in Ansbach in the middle of the 18th century, Hofmann's parents had emigrated from Pretzendorf (now Himmelkron), near Bayreuth, to Bohemia, where they lived in very poor circumstances.