Heinrich Hoffmann (author)

Heinrich Hoffmann ( born June 13, 1809 in Frankfurt am Main, † September 20, 1894 ) was a German psychiatrist, poet and children's author and is the author of Struwwelpeter. He also used the pseudonyms Heulalius of howling castle, rhyme Erich Kinderlieb, Peter Struwwel and Polycarpus Gastfenger.

  • 3.1 Picture Books
  • 6.1 Bibliography
  • 6.2 Overviews
  • 6.3 Special studies

Life

His father was an architect and urban building inspector. Hoffmann visited three years, the White women's school in his hometown, then to 1828 the Municipal Gymnasium. From 1829 to 1832 he studied medicine in Heidelberg and Halle, where he graduated in 1833 with a doctorate. Since 1830 he was a member, and later an honorary member of the Corps Alemannia.

After a stay in Paris, he returned in August 1834 to Frankfurt. 1835 appointed him the authorities of the Free City of Frankfurt to the doctor at the morgue at the cemetery in Sachsenhausen. In addition, he settled as a general practitioner and obstetrician in Sachsenhausen from 1835 to 1846 and belonged to the clinic for the poor in the Meisengasse to. This 1834 by five doctors appointed Frankfurter polyclinic care of indigent patients in Frankfurt and the surrounding villages.

In 1836 he joined the Masonic Lodge to unity, but he left after a few years, when she had received no Jewish Freemasons.

Hoffmann married on March 5, 1840 Therese Donner, a daughter of the Frankfurt hat manufacturers Christoph Friedrich thunder. With her he had three children: Carl Philipp (1841-1868), Antonie Caroline (1844-1914) and Eduard ( 1848-1920 ). Therefore, it was called " Hoffmann- Donner ".

Gallery

Der Struwwelpeter (1858 )

School Report of the 16- year-old Hoffmann

First hand book for hustler

Grave in Frankfurt am Main

Plaque on Hoffmann's birthplace in Frankfurt Freßgass

Stamp to mark the 200th birthday

From 1844 to 1851 he taught anatomy at the Senckenberg Institute. 1848, Hoffmann was a deputy in the Frankfurt Pre-Parliament. In his household he hosted the later Baden revolutionary Friedrich Hecker. Hoffmann himself advocated a constitutional monarchy under Prussian leadership and belonged to the Erbkaiserlichen. In his satirical writings manual for Burrows and concise instructions in a few days to become a Volkmann (1848 ) and The Howlers mirror (1849 ), he strongly opposed the Republicans. In 1866 he advocated the annexation of the Free City of Frankfurt by Prussia.

From 1851 until his retirement on July 1, 1888, he was director of the Asylum for the Insane and Epileptic in Frankfurt am Main, the city's mental hospital. He is regarded as the first representative of adolescent psychiatry. At his instigation, was from 1859 to 1864 a modern new building on the Affensteiner field in the then undeveloped northern West End.

After his retirement, he wrote his memoirs published in 1926. He died after a stroke and was at Frankfurt 's main cemetery ( on the wall, No 541 ) buried. According to him, a street in Frankfurt- Niederrad is named, what is now the center of Psychiatry, University Hospital Frankfurt. Him are two museums dedicated and several commemorative plaques to his former residences in Frankfurt.

Literary works

Since 1842 he has published poems and plays under various pseudonyms. He described himself as an opportunity verse maker. He received worldwide recognition through his appointed by himself with pictures children's book Der Struwwelpeter, which he wrote for Christmas 1844 for his eldest son. Probably in 1858 created a new version of Hoffmann with altered images; on this basis for all subsequent editions of Struwwelpeter.

1851 Hoffmann published his Christmas story "King Nutcracker and the Poor Reinhold ". The first edition was illustrated with a drawing of the author's own hand, showing the Frankfurt Christmas Market.

This is the first Christmas story, in which a nutcracker plays a special role. Around 1870 the first stilted Nutcracker in Seiffen created on the model of King Nutcracker picture book in the Erzgebirge.

Works

  • Poems, 1842
  • The Mondzügler. A comedy of the present, publisher of Jäger'schen book, paper and map action, Frankfurt am Main 1843
  • Funny stories and amusing pictures for children aged 3-6 years, 1845 - Since the 4th edition in 1847 under the title " Struwwelpeter "
  • Humorous studies Literary Institute ( J. Rütten ), Frankfurt am Main 1847
  • Little Handbook for hustler or brief instructions in a few days to be a popular man, Gustav Mayer, Leipzig 1848
  • Howler mirror. Messages from the diary of Mr. Heulalius of howling castle, 1849
  • The true and genuine limping messenger ( 2 vols. ), 1850-1851
  • King Nutcracker and the Poor Reinhold, 1851
  • The physiology of sensory hallucinations Literary Institute ( J. Rütten ), Frankfurt am Main 1851
  • The Breviarium of marriage, 1853
  • Bastian of the sluggard, 1854
  • In heaven and on earth. Warm and joke cuisine from the world of children, Literary Institute Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt 1857
  • All Souls Booklet. A humorous cemetery anthology, Literary Institute ( J. Rütten ), Frankfurt am Main 1858
  • Observations and experiences about mental disorders and epilepsy in an asylum at Frankfort, 1851-1858, 1859
  • The seaside resort of salt hole, its iodine-bromine, iron and saline sulfur springs and the tanninsauren animalistic air baths, along with a apology for Hasardspiels, Literaritsche Institute ( Rütten & Löning ), Frankfurt am Main 1860
  • A songbook for Natural Scientists and Physicians, 1867
  • Prinz Grünewald and pearls fine with her ​​dear donkey, 1871
  • In serene paths. Collected Poems, Literaritsche Institute ( Rütten & Löning ), Frankfurt am Main 1873
  • Visit with Mrs. sun. New funny stories and comical pictures, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1924 ( ed. by Edward and Walther Hessenberg )
  • Struwwelpeter Hoffmann talks about his life, Englert and Schlosser, Frankfurt am Main 1926 ( ed. by Eduard Hessenberg )

Picture books

  • Melodies Struwwelpeter
  • Bottom fairy tree
  • Kasper's Merry Pranks
  • The island marzipan
  • The little ABC contactor
  • Jung Purzelmann
  • Laughing children
  • Höckchen - Döckchen

The Urmanuskript of the book 's droll stories and funny pictures that contains the Struwwelpeter, located in the Germanic National Museum ( 8 ° Hs 100921, 21 x 16.8 cm).

Craps

  • The Lord's Fix of Bickenbach trip around the world in 77 days, Struwwelpeter Museum Frankfurt am Main, in 2012. Facsimile As in slipcase available.

Exhibitions

  • 2001 Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt: Heinrich Hoffmann meets John Elsas.
  • 2003 Nuremberg, Germanic National Museum: Focus August 2003
  • 2009 City of Frankfurt am Main: Heinrich Hoffmann summer of 2009 ( the 200th anniversary )
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