Ole-Jacob Hoff [SEP] father
Ole-Jacob Hoff
Ole-Jacob Hoff (born 1928 in Oslo) was a Norwegian economist, academician, author, publisher, and scholar. The son of a fellow economist and author, Trygve Hoff, Ole-Jacob Hoff also functioned as editor of the influential Norwegian-language economic periodical Farmand until 1989. He graduated from Harvard University and was an influential social and political critic and speaker.
Career.
Ole Jacob Hoff took over as editor and publisher of Farmand after his father's death and stayed on
; then later to the United States, where he studied banking and finance and worked on Wall Street.
He was first married to Astrid Henriette Gundersen in August 1920 until her death in 1947. They had three children: Per Reinhardt Hoff (born 1922), Margrethe Hoff (born 1924), and Ole-Jacob Hoff (born 1928). Later on, he married Aase Synnøve Bye on 18 September 1948.
Career.
Though he started writing in "Dagbladet" as an economics writer in 1920,