E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann) was born in Königsberg in 1776 and died in Berlin in 1822. He studied law and worked as a jurist while also pursuing music, composition, drawing, and writing. In 1802, a series of caricatures he had drawn led to his punitive transfer to Płock. Hoffmann became known for works including “Nachtstücke,” “The Devil’s Elixirs,” “The Serapion Brethren,” and “The Life and Opinions of Kater Murr.” He is regarded as a major figure of Romanticism.