HOFFMAN. IM HOFFMANN. not graduated, at Columbia College, he was ad- mitted to the bar at twenty-one and practiced three jears, after which he devoted himself to literature. In 1833 he established the Knicker- bocker Magazine, but soon gave it up and became editor of the American Monthly, which he con- ducted f(ir several years, .fterwards he edited for short periods the Mirror and the Literary ^'orld. His first book was .1 Winter in the West (1835), which was followed by II iW Scenes in Forest and I'rairie (1837) — both based upon ac- tual experiences in search of health. He now wrote a few novels, the most important being Greystaer (1840), founded upon the murder of Colonel Sharjx! by Beauchamp, a theme which a little later attracted Simms (q.v.). But his fame rested chiellv upon his poems, first collected in The Vigil of Faith (1842). and especially his songs, which were once deserve<ily popular. .mong them may be named Rosalie Clare" and "Monterey." A complete edition of his poema appeared in 1873. In 1849 he became insane, and for the remainder of his life was confined in an asylum. HOFFMAN, D.wiD (17841854). An Ameri- can law v( r and author. He was professor of law in the L'niversity of Maryland from 1817 to 1836; traveled much abroad, and received honorary de- grees from Oxford and Giittingen. Among his publications are: .1 Course of Legal Studies (1817); Legal Outlines (1836); Miscellaneous Thoughts on Men, Manners, and Things, by '.' thony Grumbler' (183/) ; and Chronicles Se- lected from the Originals of Cartaphilus, the M'andrriiig .lew (185.3). HOFFMAN, ErcENE ArcrsTrs ( 1829-in0'2). An -Viiierican clergyman of the Protestant Epis- copal Church. He was born in New York City, and was educated at Rutgers and Harvard Col- leges and at the General Theological Seminarj-. He was rector successively of Christ Church, Elizabeth, X. J.; Saint Mary's nnirch, Ffurling- ton. . .1.: Grace Church, BrookU-n Heights; and Saint Mark's Church. Philadelphia. In 1879 he was appointed dean of the General Theological Seminary, Xew York, and in connection with his family heavily endowed that institution. Dr. HotTman built Christ Church and rectory at Elizabeth, and churches at Milbum and Wood- bridge. X. .T. He wrote Free Churches (1858), and Thf t:„rbnrislic Week (18,59 and 1893). HOFFMAN, Ricn.BD (1831-). .
Ameri-
can pianist, composer, and teacher. He was born in Manchester. Lancashire, England, but after his si.xteenth year resided in Xew York City. His earliest instruction was received from his father, an<l subsequently from Meyer. Pleyel. Mo- scholes, Rubinstein. Thalberg, Dobler. and T.iszt. Within a year of his arrival in America he made a tour ft the country, and later accompanied Jenny l.ind on her tours. He was an exceedingly popular concert pianist, and played with Gott- scbalk, and afterwards with Von Biilow (Xew Y'ork. 1875). He settled down to teaching, and has been one of the most important factors in American musical life. His compositions con- sist of pianoforte music, part songs, ballads, an- thems, and Church rausio generally. HOFFMAN, Walter James (1846-99). An .mi'riian ethnologist. He was born at Weidas- ville. I'a., studied medicine at Jefferson College, Philadelphia, and practiced it in Reading. Pa., till 1870, when lie went to the Franco-Prussian War as a surgeon with the German .rmy. On hia return he took a similar position with the United States troops, and thus obtained opportunities for natural history researches in .Arizona, Xe- vada, and Dakota' In 1877 HotTman was at- tached to the Geological Sur'ey, and two years afterwards became assistant in the Bureau of Ethnijliij;y at its formation. HOFFMAN, OR, The Revenge fob a Fatiieb. . tragedy by Henry Chettle, performed in 1002; the only play written wholly by this author that has been preser-ed. It exists in a very corrupt quarto, printed in 1631 without the author's name. HOFFMANN, liAfman, .i gist Hei.nricu, called lloFJji..N.N vox Falleksleue.n, f6n fiil'Srs- lA'bcn (1798-1874). A tierman poet, philologist, and literary historian, horn at Fallersleben. He was educated at Giittingen and Bonn, and from 1823 to 1838 was librarian at the University of Breslau, where he was also professor from 1H30 till his dismissal (1842) for his I'nitolitische Liedcr I 1841-421. He was restored to his rights as a Prussian citizen in 1848. having passed the intervening years in Mecklenburg. He married in 1849 ami afterwards lived at Bingerbriick, Xeuwied, and Weimar, where he was an editor of the Wcimarisches Jahrbuch. From ISGO till his death he was librarian of the Duke of Ratibor. Popular at first as a lilieral political poet, he is cherished still for the ease, simplicity, and grace of songs of common life, for many of which he also composed melodies, HofTmann was a diligent editor of early German cla.ssics (Reinckc Vos. Monumenta EInonensia, Theophilus) , made valuable contributions to philologj- now of an- tiquarian interest only, and to literary history. In 1868-70 HofTmann published Mein Lehen, an autobiography in six volumes. HofTmann's Works are still uncollected, but the Poems (incomplete) hav^" I)een often reedited. His liricfe an Ferdi- nand M'olf were published in 1874. There is a Life by Wagner (Vienna and Dresden, 1869). Con-ult also Krcvenl)erg, in Preussische Jahr- hiichcr (Berlin. 1891). HOFFMANN, Eb.xst Theodob Amadeus (originally WiuiELM) (1776-1822). An eccentric German romantic novelist of cosmopolitan repu- tation and influence, born at Kiinigsberg. His foremost characteristic is his wayward yet keen fancy, suggesting at once Hawthorne and Poe. He dealt by preference with the grotesque, startling, and mar'elous. until toward the close of his life morbidity verged on mad- ness. After a joyless childhood, he prepared for the law, let his wit run away with his pru- dence in some witty caricatures, and finding his career thus blocked. sufTered from penury and dissipation. He eked out a living by scene and portrait painting and musical composition and iriticism in Posen, Warsaw. Bamberg, I.,eipzig, Dresden, and Berlin, where in 1816 he became councilor of the Court of Appeals, For short inten-alij he was manager and musical di- rector also. His first book was a collection of musical criticisms with illustrations, Phan- iasirstiicke in Callots Manier (1814). In 1816 appeared Die Elixire des Teufels. which, with Lehensansichtcn des Katrrs Murr (1820-22). is the most famous of his works. Other noteworthy volumes are Die SerapionsWrOder (1819-21) and
