Author:Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

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Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
(1776–1822)

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German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist; better known by his pen name, E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann). The subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's famous fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann. Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.

Works

The Devil's Elixir (1829) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2) (vol I & II)
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr *incomplete
The Sandman
Nutcracker and Mouse-king (1853) (children's fiction) transl. Mrs. Saint Simon (transcription project)
Hoffmann's Strange Stories. From the German (1855) (external scan)
Weird Tales (1885) Transl. J. T. (John Thomas) Bealby, 1858- (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
The Serapion Brethren (1908?) Transl. Major Alex Ewing
Coppélia. Grand ballet in Three Acts (19--?) with Arthur Saint-Léon, (1821-1870); music by Léo Delibes, (1836-1891)

Works about Hoffmann

“Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm” by Flora Masson in Encyclopædia Britannica (9th ed., 1881).
"Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"Hoffmann, Ernst Theodore Wilhelm," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
"Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
"Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

On his works

"Die Elixiere des Teufels," by Benjamin W. Wells in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)

Works by this author published before January 1, 1924 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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