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| | HOFFMANN, ERNST THEODOR WILHELM - LoveToKnow Article on HOFFMANN, ERNST THEODOR WILHELM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | HOFFMANN, AUGUST HEINRICH (1798-1874), known as HOFFHANX vox FALLERSLEBEN, German poet, philologist and historian of literature, was born at Fallersleben in the duchy of Liineburg, Hanover, on the 2nd of April 1798, the son of the mayor of the town. |
 | | Hoffmann had the reputation of being an excellent jurist and a conscientious official; he had leisure for literary pursuits and was on the best of terms with the circle of Romantic poets and novelists who gathered round Fouque, Chamisso and his old friend Hitzig. |
 | | Hoffmann is one of the master novelists of the Romantic movement in Germany. |
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