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Peter Hoffmann was born on 1 July, 1956 in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, is an A scottish male middle distance runner. Discover Peter Hoffmann's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?
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Peter Hoffmann Net Worth
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Through their diaries, The Letts’ Schoolboys follows, tracks and contrasts the daily lives of five fellow British schoolboy diarists - T.G. Richards aged 15 in 1918 from Swansea Wales; English schoolboys G.D.B. (Gordon) Goodall from Worcester aged 14 at the beginning of 1930; Kenneth Holder aged 14 in 1935 from Woking; Derek Foster, aged 15 in 1940 who lives in Harrow but attends Dulwich College London during school-term; and their Scottish compatriot from across the years and the decades and the border, Peter Hoffmann, aged 14 in 1971, who attends Edinburgh’s Boroughmuir Senior Secondary School.
Covering a period of over half a century the book follows their day to day lives in their own words including Spanish Flu, Test Matches, Churchill’s most famous speech, the German-France Armistice and even a World War 1 baseball match held in Swansea between Canada and the USA.
His mother attended the University of Edinburgh in 1954, and his father was a chief officer in the merchant navy who trained at the Edinburgh shipping company, Ben Line Agencies.
Peter Hoffmann (born 1 July 1, 1956) is an Edinburgh author and former international sportsman.
Born in Edinburgh, Peter Hoffmann was brought up in Oxgangs, Edinburgh and educated at Hunters Tryst Primary School and Boroughmuir High School.
He has written books on Edinburgh, sport and social history as well as biography and a fictional love story set in Edinburgh between the years 1960 and 1963.
He is also the author of the Samuel Pepys An Edinburgh Town-Dweller series of journals covering the years 1971-1996.
It is the final book in a pentalogy of 5 athletics based books - A Life In A Day In A Year: A Postcard From Meadowbank, 1973-1978 (2017) which captures the Scottish athletics scene of the 1970s featuring such athletes as Roger Jenkins (banker) David Jenkins (sprinter) and Paul Forbes encapsulating the social culture of the Edinburgh era of the 1970s; Festina Lente - A Practical Philosophy of 800 Metres Running: The True Confessions Of Retep Nnamffoh: School's Out For Ever, A 1973 Edinburgh Young Athlete's Diary (2018); and You Can Run But You Can't Outrun Yourself: A 1950s Edinburgh Love Story (2021).
In 2021 Hoffmann authored the book Two Worlds telling the remarkable story of (Dr.) Arthur Philip Motley a Black American who as a young man left his home in McAlester City Oklahoma in 1928 to travel the 4351 miles across America and the Atlantic Ocean to come to Edinburgh Scotland to fulfil his dream to become a doctor going on to become a legendary figure in the community of Oxgangs.
Between 1973 and 1978 Hoffmann won 10 Scottish titles at Youth, Junior and Senior level; broke the Scottish Native 400 metres record on 3 occasions and won 7 AAAs medals at 200, 400 and 800 metres.
Between 1974 and 1978 Hoffmann made fourteen international appearances for Scotland at 400, 800 and 4 x 400 metres relay.
He was a British Junior International in 1974 and 1975 at 400 meters and 4 x 400 metres and between 1975 and 1978 also represented Great Britain at 400, 800 and 4 x 400 metres.
Representing Great Britain at the 1975 European Junior Championships he won a silver medal in the 400 metres.
In 1976 Hoffmann began studying for a degree in English and sports science and recreation management at Loughborough University but decided to leave shortly after starting the course.
He was a member of the British Olympic 4 x 400 metres relay squad at Montreal, 1976.
He is the author of the recently published book Audacity and Idiocy: A Scottish Athlete’s 1978 Commonwealth Games Journal (2022) to coincide with the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
In 1978 he was a Great Britain internationalist indoors over 800 metres.
In 1978 he represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton in the 800 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.
He had an unusually wide range winning the Scottish 50 metres indoor sprint as well as the British (AAA) 800 metres.
He partnered Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett as the UK's third representative at the 1978 European Athletics Championships Men's 800 metres in Prague.
In addition to winning AAA's titles at 400 and 800 metres Hoffmann took the silver medal behind Coe at the 1978 UK Athletics Championships.
He instead graduated from Edinburgh Napier University with a BA in Business Studies (1981) and Dunfermline College of Physical Education with a postgraduate Diploma Recreation and Leisure Practice (1983).
For 25 years Hoffmann worked in the field of education, culture and sport in Midlothian and the Highlands, and for more than 10 years at chief officer level.
He has written occasional articles for The Scotsman and Lothian Life.
He lives in the Highlands and is married with two sons, Will and Tom; the latter is an international epeeist and was part of the successful Scotland team which won the bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Fencing Championships and the 2018 Commonwealth Fencing Championships.
With the closure of Meadowbank Stadium Hoffmann founded the Memory Hold The Door-Meadowbank Sports Centre legacy project allowing people from throughout the world to record their memories, stories, experiences, photographs and other memorabilia of the facility.
In 2016 he represented Scotland at the 4 Nations Home Fencing Veterans’ International at epee.
In 2018 he also launched a similar project Oxgangs - A Pastime From Time Past - Spirits Across The Air which has been edited into the first volume of a projected small series.
His hobbies include literature, painting, fencing and exercising.
Hoffmann made a cameo appearance in the film Chariots Of Fire in the scene featuring the Scotland v Ireland international.