Monograph: Hipparchs Himmelsglobus – Ein Bindeglied in der babylonisch-griechischen Astrometrie?, Springer Verlag, Wiesbaden, New York, 2017 (online)
The Ancient (Greek) Star Catalogue
Hoffmann and Yang (2025). Data analytics for tracing methods of ancient astronomy. in Thuillard, M. (ed.), Probing the Past with Data Analytics and AI, Word Scientific (New Jersey/ London/ Singapore…), 201-221
Grasshoff, G., & Hoffmann, S. M. (2024). An astronomical analysis of the data in the pseudo-Hipparchus palimpsest in the Codex Climaci Rescriptus. Journal for the History of Astronomy, 55(3), 332-349. DOI
Hoffmann, S.M. (2022). Essay: On Ptolemy’s stellar magnitudes, 426-429
Protte, Ph and Hoffmann S.M (2020), Accuracy of magnitudes in pre-telescopic star catalogues, AN, 341, 827-840
Babylonian Star Catalogues & Uranography
Hoffmann, S.M. (2024). Standing and Sitting Gods of MUL.APIN, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 27(2), 261-272
Hoffmann, S.M. and Krebernik, M. (2023): What do deities tell us about the celestial positioning system, in: R. Rollinger, I. Madreiter, M. Lang, C. Pappi (eds.). The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East, Papers held at the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique International and 12th Melammu Symposium July 16-20 2018, Innsbruck. Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 539-579
Archaeoastronomy:
1. The Nebra Sky Disc
2. Circular Enclosures
Hoffmann, S.M. (2023): Zeigt die Himmelsscheibe von Nebra ein Instrument der Zeitrechnung?, Codices Manuscripti & Impressi, Wien, 37-52
Crocco, J., Hoffmann, S.M. and Vogt, N. Essay: What is depicted on the Nebra Disc?, 87-101
Michel, Ch.; Hoffmann, S.M.; Schier, W. (2016): Built Knowledge – Spatial Patterns and Viewsheds of Middle Neolithic Circular Enclosures in the Northern Foreland of the Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, EditionTopoi
The Giant Schupmann Telescope of Rathenow
Monograph: Das Riesen-Schupmann-Teleskop von Rathenow, Reihe: UhuraUraniae, Bd.4, Verlag tredition, Hamburg, 2015
Constellations
Textbooks Hoffmann, S.M. (2021): Wie der Löwe an den Himmel kam. Franckh Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart
Axel Mellinger and Susanne M Hoffmann (2002). Der Große KOSMOS Himmelsatlas, Franckh Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart
Research Papers (examples) Hoffmann and Horowitz (2025). Lion, Lioness and Wings: Studies of The Lion-Asterism(s?) of Ancient Mesopotamia, Archiv für Orientforschung (AfO) 56, 33-43
Hoffmann, S.M. und Blume, D. (2023): „’l volger del ciel“ in Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch: Dante und die Stadt. Kommunale Kultur und literarische Öffentlichkeit. Blume: “Dantes Sterne” (43-53), Hoffmann: “Planetarium Dantis” 1-42 (DOI), DeGruyter, 1-53
Geymeier, M. & Hoffmann, S.M. (2023): Das Sternbild Horologium im Kontext seiner Zeit, Codices Manuscripti & Impressi, Wien, 53-66
Gullberg, J, Hoffmann, S.M. and Gullberg, S.R. (2022). Painting Babylonian: New Constellations in Stellarium, 171-191
Hoffmann, S.M. and Horowitz, W. (2022). How to identify “The Plough” MUL.APIN, epinnu? 148-170
Hoffmann, S.M., Vickers, D. and Geymeier, M. (2022). Constellation Cetus: Whale or Monster? , 287
Historical Globes & Maps
Hoffmann (2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169.
Latußeck, A. and Hoffmann, S (2017): Ein nützliches Unternehmen, Albireo-Verlag, Köln
Historical Novae and Supernovae
Bo-Shun YANG, N. Vogt and Hoffmann, S.M. (2025). Was there a (super)nova in 1408? DOI
Bo-Shun YANG and Hoffmann, S.M. (2024). Identification of Z Cam’s Historical Counterpart: The Quest for an Ancient Nova, Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics, xx(x), xxx-xxx, DOI
Hoffmann S.M. and Vogt N (2022): A Search for recurrent novae among Far Eastern guest stars, New Astronomy, Vol 92, 101722
Hoffmann S.M., Vogt, N. (2020): A search for the modern counterparts of the Far Eastern guest stars 369 CE, 386 CE and 393 CE, MNRAS, 197, 2, 1419–1433
Hoffmann, S.: What information can we derive from historical Far Eastern guest stars for modern research on novae and cataclysmic variables? MNRAS 490, 3, 2019, 4194-4210
Vogt, N., Hoffmann, S., Tappert, C.: On the possibilities of classical nova identifications among historical Far Eastern guest star observations, AN, 2019, 8, 752-759.
Visualisation/ Planetarium
Hoffmann, S.M. (2021): Historical Constellations in the Planetarium. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Vol. 15 , Symposium S367: Education and Heritage in the Era of Big Data in Astronomy, December 2020, Cambridge University Press, 474 – 475
Hoffmann, S.M. (2021): Reconstruction of ancient constellations in the planetarium dome, The Planetarian, June, p. 12-20; cont. p. 74
Zotti, G.; Hoffmann, S.M.; Wolf, A.; Chéreau, F., Chéreau, G. (2020), The simulated sky: Stellarium for cultural astronomy, JSA, 6.2, 221-258 (invited paper)
Hoffmann, S.M. (2020): Babylonian Constellations in Stellarium 0.19.*, in: Draxler, Lippitsch, Wolfschmidt (eds.), Harmony and Symmetry – Proceedings of SEAC Annual Meeting 2018 (held at Graz), Hamburg 2020, 156-172
Hoffmann, S.M. (2019): Visualisieren für die Erkenntnis – über die Funktion computergenerierter Bilder, in: Wolfschmidt, Gudrun: Vom Abakus zum Computer – Geschichte der Rechentechnik, Teil 1, Nuncius Hamburgensis, Bd. 21, 411-435
Academic Background
Domain
academic degree
specialisation
History of Science
Diplom-Naturwissenschaftshistorikerin (Dipl.-Wiss.Hist) Dr. phil.
astronomy astronomy
Physics
Dipl.-Phys.
astronomy
Education
Dr. paed.
physics & astronomy
vocational training
science journalist
planetarian
project manager
Activities / positions of honour
International Astronomical Union,
Working Group on Star Names
Office for Astronomical Outreach
Commission C5
data curator for constellations in the Stellarium team
member of board: Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (based in China)
member of board: CAP-Journal (based in Japan)
member of board: Journal of Skyscape Archaeology (based in the UK)
collaborator of State Museum for Prehistory Halle (Germany)
