Hoffmann
Hoffmann names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Hoffmann AUGUST HEINRICH (hof'män)
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
AUGUST HEINRICH (hof'män), commonly called HOFFMANN VON FALLERSLEBEN, a German philologist; born in Fallersleben, Lüneburg, April 2, 1798. He was destined for theology, but devoted himself to philological studies. In 1830 he was appointed Professor of German Literature, but the publication of his "Unpolitical Songs" (1840-1841), in spite of their innocent title, led to his dismissal. For several years afterward he wandered through Europe till restored to favor in 1848. His own "Poems" (1834); "German Street Songs" (1843); "Soldier Songs" (1851-1852); etc., are characterized by genuine simplicity and pathos; and his other publications-"Belgian Hours" (1830-1852); "Foundations for the History of the German Language and Literature" (1830-1837); "History of German Church Hymn" (1832), are of great philological value. He died Jan. 19, 1874.
Hoffmann a German scientist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a German scientist; born in Fürstenwalde, Brandenburg, in 1621; settled at Altorf, where he held the prophysic; was the discoverer of the pancreatic duct; died in 1698. FRIEDRICH HOFFMAN, a German physician; born in Halle, Saxony, 1660. He studied and lectured at Jena, and afterward practiced at Minden. On the establishment of the University of Halle, he was approfessor of medicine pointed primary and natural philosophy; and thrice held He was elected the situation of rector. a member of various scientific associations in London, Berlin, and St. Petersburg; and appointed physician to the King of Prussia. His works include "System of Rational Medicine" and "Consultary Medicine." He died in 1742.
Hoffmann ERNST THEODOR WILHELM, a German novelist and miscellaneous writer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ERNST THEODOR WILHELM, a German novelist and miscellaneous writer; born in Königsberg, in 1776. He studied law, and held various judicial appointments in Poland, till his legal career was interrupted by the invasion of Warsaw by the French, in 1816, in the government of which city he had been appointed counsellor. He devoted his leisure time to the study of music and romance writing. Among his works are "Fantasy Pieces," "The Devil's Elixir," "The Entail," "The Adversary," etc., all displaying a singularly wild and romantic imagination. He died in 1882.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's noted in 1921 that Hoffmann von Fallersleben's "Unpolitical Songs" of 1840-41 got him sacked from his professorship, but did not mention the one lyric everyone now knows: the "Lied der Deutschen" ("Deutschland, Deutschland über alles"), written on Heligoland in 1841, which the Weimar Republic adopted as the national anthem in 1922, the year after this article appeared, and whose third stanza has been the anthem of the Federal Republic since 1952. The entry on E. T. A. Hoffmann carries two errors worth flagging: he died in Berlin on 25 June 1822, not 1882, and the French took Warsaw in 1806, not 1816. He also signed himself Ernst Theodor Amadeus, having swapped his baptismal Wilhelm for Amadeus out of devotion to Mozart, and his fame today rests less on the tales themselves than on what was made of them — Offenbach's opera "Les contes d'Hoffmann" (1881), Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" (1892) after "Nussknacker und Mausekönig", and Freud's 1919 essay on the uncanny, built around "The Sandman". Of the two medical Hoffmanns, Friedrich survives chiefly in "Hoffmann's drops", the ether-and-alcohol anodyne; his "System of Rational Medicine" is read only as history.
Written for this edition, 2026.