Author · Germany
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Died in 1822
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann was born in 1776 in Königsberg into a family of jurists and studied law there. He led a double career: as a Prussian justice official, appointed in 1816 as a councillor at the Kammergericht in Berlin, and as a musician, music director at the Bamberg theatre, opera composer and critic. He exchanged his third forename for Amadeus, in homage to Mozart. His tales, which lodge the strange in the bourgeois town, left their mark on Russian, French and American writers. He died in Berlin in 1822.
In the catalogue 2
- NovelThe Devil's ElixirsDie Elixiere des TeufelsE.T.A. Hoffmann · 1815Literature
- TaleThe Nutcracker and the Mouse KingNußknacker und MausekönigE.T.A. Hoffmann · 1816LiteraturePublic domain