This also provided sufficient material for literary processing. What they all had in common was that they acted in secret and that their knowledge could only be passed on within the secret society. Among the most famous are the resurrected Rosicrucian and Illuminati orders, among many others. Hoffmann’s literary work was also influenced by the founding of the secret societies in the 18th century. Hoffmann was the first romantic who illuminated the “night side” of human existence in all its radicalness and poetically narrated it. Visits to the theatre and attempts at the composition of musical plays captured Hoffmann in Berlin, so that he only passed his third state examination on 27 March 1800, again this time with the mark “excellent”. In August 1798 he undertook his first major holiday trip to the Giant Mountains, to Bohemia and Saxony, where he was greatly impressed by the picture gallery in Dresden. So he went to the Court of Appeal in Berlin. This achievement gave him access to a legal clerkship at the place of his choice. On 20 June 1798 Hoffmann passed his second state examination with the grade “excellent”. 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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