He also devoted himself to writing, making music and drawing. In 1795 he passed his first state examination in law and became an articled clerk at the higher court in Königsberg. His most important teacher was the Kant student Daniel Christoph Reidenitz. From 1782 Hoffmann attended the castle school in Königsberg. The sixteen-year-old Hoffmann began studying law at the Albertus University in Königsberg in 1792, a family tradition. Hoffmann lived in his mother’s parental home with his maternal grandmother, among others. When his parents separated in 1778, his brother Johann Ludwig (1768 to 1822) stayed with his father, who moved to Insterburg, and Ernst Theodor and his mother moved back to their parents’ house. Hoffmann, The Devil’s Elixirs, 1815 Youth and EducationĮrnst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann was born on 24 January 1776 in Königsberg as the youngest son of the court attorney Christoph Ludwig Hoffmann and his cousin Lovisa Albertina Doerffer. “Ha there is something divine about art, for art, my Lord, is not really both the art of which one speaks so much, but it arises rather only from all that one calls art! “ Hoffmann’s stories highly influenced 19th-century literature, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement. On January 24, 1776, German author Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann was born. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822)
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