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Definition of Hoffmann
1. Noun. Austrian architect known for his use of rectilinear units (1870-1956).
2. Noun. German chemist (1818-1892).
3. Noun. United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937).
4. Noun. German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822).
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoffmann
Literary usage of Hoffmann
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"The hero of the opera, Hoffmann himself, is there, ^drinking with a number ...
This man is a famous physiologist, and Hoffmann has •entered his house as his ..."
2. The Standard Operas, Their Plots and Their Music by George Putnam Upton (1914)
"Les Contes de Hoffmann " Les Contes de Hoffmann " (" Tales of Hoffmann "), a
lyric opera arranged in prologue, three acts or scenes, and epilogue, ..."
3. Beethoven's Letters: A Critical Edition : with Explanatory Notes by Ludwig van Beethoven, Alfred Christlieb Kalischer, John South Shedlock (1909)
"The poet and musician, Hoffmann, was, together with Bettina von Arnim, ...
Hitzig, in his Hoffmann Biography, states that this letter of Beethoven caused ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"And ETW Hoffmann yet, as Professor Kuno Francke has said, "Hoffmann with all his
somnambulism and madness was ... Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann was born at ..."
5. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1871)
"In. Baader and Schelling — Fr. Hoffmann. IV. Literary Reviews and Chronicle (Hoffmann,
Rosenkranz, and Baader, in an American Journal [retranslation into ..."
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