Eva Cristina Hoffman Jedruch was born in the city of Lwów, Poland, months before the outbreak of the Second World War. After the war she lived in England, Argentina, and since 1969 in the USA. She is a chemical engineer by profession, graduate of the state university of Buenos Aires. She married Dr Jacek Jedruch, nuclear physicist and a Renaissance man, a parliamentary historian. Since 1986, Eva has lived close to New York and worked for the German chemical company, BASF, as an international marketing manager. Widowed, after retirement she enrolled at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, in the Arts & Letters program, earning a D.Litt. (Doctor of Letters) degree in medieval studies. Eva speaks five languages. She is a board member of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions (ICHRPI). Her two cats, Fritz and Janey, make wonderful companions.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Central and Eastern Europe was a configuration of nations dominated by three empires: Austrian, German and Russian, whose borders promised to be set in concrete. The Austrian Empire was a multi-ethnic entity of countries that had been absorbed over time. Among t...
