Theodore Hook

Theodore Edward Hook ( born September 22, 1788 in London, † August 24, 1841 ) was a British journalist and novelist.

Life

The son of the popular composer James Hook (1746-1827) showed early musical and poetic skills and was presented by his father, also at court. Together with him, wrote the sixteen successful comic opera, The Soldier 's Return.

Hooks formal education consisted of one years Harrow School and a pro forma stay in Oxford, but the youthful Playboy knew how to improvise songs and this inspired the Prince Regent so much that he made to the invoice Hook Commissioner of Mauritius. For five years, lived in a big way Hook on the island, but in 1817 he was arrested for a well-known, by a subordinate evaded deficit and brought to England.

Already during the ongoing investigations Hook successfully devoted to journalism. In 1820 he began publishing the weekly magazine John Bull, the tendency by a witty and angriffig written Tory sheet that chose to be a target of Queen Caroline. Hook was considered a young man as a notorious prankster, so he was responsible for the Berners Street Hoax, who saw 1810 in the whole of England for attention.

Because of its debt to the State Hook had to serve two years in prison. He wrote during his nine volumes of short prose. Also in the episode, he remained restless worked, helped about the singer Michael Kelly, who had known Mozart, in composing his memoirs and published the novels ' Maxwell ( 1830), Love and Pride ( 1833), the autobiographical Gilbert Gurney (1836 ), Jack Brag (1837 ), Gurney Married ( 1838) and Peregrine Bunce (1842 ). The 1833 published novel The parsons daughter was already translated in 1847 as The pastor's daughter into German.