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E. T. A. Hoffmann

1776 - 1822

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Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. He is the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker is based. In addition, his stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, in which Hoffmann appears (heavily fictionalized) as the hero. The ballet Coppélia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote, while Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on Hoffmann's character Johannes Kreisler. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. E. T. A. Hoffmann is the 145th most popular writer (down from 114th in 2019), the 46th most popular biography from Russia (down from 38th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Russian Writer.

E. T. A. Hoffmann is most famous for his novel "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, E. T. A. Hoffmann ranks 145 out of 7,302. Before him are Paul Verlaine, Lewis Carroll, Boris Pasternak, Dr. Seuss, Yukio Mishima, and Karl Adolph Gjellerup. After him are Cato the Elder, Cyrano de Bergerac, Vladimir Nabokov, Henry David Thoreau, Diogenes Laërtius, and Emily Brontë.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1776, E. T. A. Hoffmann ranks 2. Before him is Amedeo Avogadro. After him are Johann Friedrich Herbart, Sophie Germain, John Constable, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Caroline of Baden, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, Şehzade Abdullah, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, and Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. Among people deceased in 1822, E. T. A. Hoffmann ranks 2. Before him is William Herschel. After him are Ali Pasha of Ioannina, Antonio Canova, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Claude Louis Berthollet, Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, René Just Haüy, Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, Giovanni Battista Venturi, and Johann Matthäus Bechstein.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, E. T. A. Hoffmann ranks 46 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander I of Russia (1777), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), Boris Pasternak (1890), Elizabeth of Russia (1709), and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901). After him are Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Alexander Nevsky (1220), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Paul I of Russia (1754), and Gustav Kirchhoff (1824).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, E. T. A. Hoffmann ranks 10. Before him are Alexander Pushkin (1799), Ayn Rand (1905), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), and Boris Pasternak (1890). After him are Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Ivan Turgenev (1818), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), and Mikhail Sholokhov (1905).

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