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Hoffstad was also engaged in politics. In 1894, he became leader of a conservative youth league in
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for shorter periods before and after 1890. In the latter year he married
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intended for use in schools, the most prominent of which was published in six editions. In the 1890s
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the city ever had served. Whilst serving as mayor, Hoffstad wrote two treatises on the management of municipal finances in the city:
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Hoffstad, O. A. (1899). "Vegetationen og floraen paa kysten af
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