About

Historical knowledge, digital tools, visual culture.

Hofstetter History Software unites history, geography, visual culture and technology. We build digital tools to understand and tell the world in time and space.

Mission

Maps, images and visualisations are not decoration: they are the argument.

Approach

Historical sources become data, data becomes maps, and maps become software. Rigour, transparency and traceability guide every stage of the process.

Values

  • Innovation — new ways to see the past, from daily-resolution atlases to generative map tools.
  • Authority — scientific rigour and transparent sources.
  • Curiosity — the pleasure of asking what the map looked like on a given day.
  • Universality — a global, non-Eurocentric coverage of history.
  • Intercultural dialogue — history as the interaction of peoples, places and the long term.

People

Christoph HofstetterCEO · Founder
Lorenzo HofstetterCOO

Partners

Sapienza Università di Roma

GeoPolMaps, our cartographic editor, is developed together with Sapienza Università di Roma and used in its courses.