Karol Aleksander Boromeusz Hoffman (1798 – 6 July 1875) was a Polish political writer, historian, lawyer and publisher.

From 1828 he was a counselor, and from 1830 one of the directors of Bank Polski.^[1] In the years 1828–1830, together with Marceli Tarczewski, he published the legal magazine Themis Polska in Warsaw. In 1829 he married Klementyna Tańska.^[1] He participated in the November uprising, and after its fall he settled in Paris in 1832. In the exile, he belonged to Hôtel Lambert, the monarchist conservative-liberal party of Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski. From 1837 until 1839 he edited The Chronicle of Polish Emigration. After the death of Klementyna, he married Matylda Dunin-Wąsowicz. In 1848 he moved to Dresden, from where he wrote correspondence to Krakow's daily Time (Czas), and was a member of the Polish Emigration Committee (Komitet Emigracji Polskiej).^[1] In 1869 Poznań Society of Friends of Learning awarded him with an honorary membership.^[2] From 1873, he was also a correspondent member of the Academy of Learning.^[1]

He published works on the November Uprising and a collection of materials about the Great Emigration, especially valued by several historians: Polish Vademecum (1839). In his historical works, he opposed democratic-republican contemporaries. He saw the specifics of the Polish historical process in the underdevelopment of cities and the weakness of royal power.

• Wielki tydzień Polaków (The Great Week of Poles, 1830,^[3] new issue 1915,^[4][5] translated into German, French and Swedish)
• Rzut oka na stan polityczny Królestwa Polskiego od 1815 do 1830 (A Glance at the Political State of the Kingdom of Poland from 1815 to 1830, 1831)^[6]
• Cztery powstania (The Four Insurrections, 1837)
• Król wygnaniec (King of the Exile, about Stanisław Leszczyński, 1854, second edition 1861)
• Historia reform politycznych w dawnej Polsce (The History of Political Reforms in Old Poland, 1867^[7] and 1869)
• O panslawizmie zachodnim (On the Western Pan-Slavism, 1868)^[8]
• O rządzie skarbu publicznego w dawnej Polsce (On Managing Public Treasury in Old Poland)
• Obraz rządu i prawodawstwa dawnej Polski (An Image of the Government and Legislation of Old Poland)
• Upadek domu Sobieskich (The Fall of the House Sobieski)
• Przyczyny podziału monarchii polskiej po Bolesławie Krzywoustym (The Reasons for the Division of the Polish Monarchy after Bolesław Krzywousty)

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