Author:Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
(1776–1822)

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

Works

Novels

• The Devil's Elixir translated by Robert Pearse Gillies (1824) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Master Flea translated by George Soane (1826) (transcription project)
• The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr translated by Wikisource *incomplete

Collected translations

• Hoffmann's Strange Stories translated anonymously (1855)
• Hoffmann's Fairy Tales translated by Lafayette Burnham (1857) (external scan)
• Weird Tales translated by John Thomas Bealby (1885) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• The Serapion Brethren translated by Alexander Ewing (1886–1892)

Short stories

• "Der Magnetiseur" collected in Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier (volume 2, 1814)
  • "Fascination" translated anonymously (1855)
• "Der goldene Topf" collected in Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier (volume 3, 1814)
  • "The Golden Pot" translated by Thomas Carlyle (1827)
  • "The Golden Pot" translated by Frederick Henry Hedge [1913] (transcription project)
• "Die Abenteuer der Silvester-Nacht" collected in Fantasiestücke in Callots Manier (volume 4, 1815)
  • "The Lost Reflection" translated anonymously (1855)

• "Der Sandmann" collected in Nachtstücke (volume 1, 1816)
  • "The Sandman" translated by John Oxenford (1844)
  • "Coppelius, the Sandman" translated anonymously (1855)
  • "The Sand-man" translated by John Thomas Bealby (1885) (transcription project)
• "Die Jesuiterkirche in G." collected in Nachtstücke (volume 1, 1816)
  • "The Jesuits' Church in G——" translated by John Oxenford (1844)
  • "Berthold, the Madman" translated anonymously (1855)
• "Das Sanctus" collected in Nachtstücke (volume 1, 1816)
  • "The Sanctus" translated by Sabilla Novello (1863) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• "Das öde Haus" collected in Nachtstücke (volume 2, 1817)
  • "The Mystery of the Deserted House" translated anonymously (1855)
• "Das Majorat" collected in Nachtstücke (volume 2, 1817)
  • "Rolandsitten, or The Deed of Entail" translated by Robert Pearse Gillies (1826) (transcription project)
  • "The Walled-up Door" translated anonymously (1855)
  • "The Entail" translated by John Thomas Bealby (1885) (transcription project)
• "Das steinerne Herz" collected in Nachtstücke (volume 2, 1817)
  • "The Agate Heart" translated anonymously (1855)

• "Rat Krespel" collected in Die Serapionsbrüder (volume 1, 1819)
  • "Antonia's Song" translated anonymously (1855)
  • "The Cremona Violin" translated by John Thomas Bealby (1885)
  • "The Cremona Violin" translated by John Thomas Bealby (1898)
• "Die Fermate" collected in Die Serapionsbrüder (volume 1, 1819)
  • "The Fermata" translated by John Thomas Bealby (1885)
• "Der Artushof" collected in Die Serapionsbrüder (volume 1, 1819)
  • "Arthur's Hall" translated by John Thomas Bealby (1885) (transcription project)
• "Nußknacker und Mausekönig" collected in Die Serapionsbrüder (volume 1, 1819)
  • Nutcracker and Mouse-King (children's fiction) translated by Mrs. Saint Simon (1853)
• "Doge und Dogaresse" collected in Die Serapionsbrüder (volume 2, 1819)
  • "The Doge and Dogess" translated by John Thomas Bealby (1885) (transcription project)
• "Meister Martin der Küfner und seine Gesellen" collected in Die Serapionsbrüder (volume 2, 1819)
  • "The Cooper of Nuremberg" translated anonymously (1855)
  • "Master Martin the Cooper" translated by John Thomas Bealby (1885) (transcription project)
• "Das Fräulein von Scuderi" collected in Die Serapionsbrüder (volume 3, 1820)
  • "Mademoiselle de Scuderi" translated by Robert Pearse Gillies (1826) (transcription project)
  • "Madame de Scuderi" translated by Richard Holcraft (1826) [1829] (transcription project)
  • "Cardillac, the Jeweller" translated anonymously (1855)
  • "Mademoiselle de Scuderi" translated by John Thomas Bealby (1885) (transcription project)
  • "The Goldsmith of the Rue Nicaise" translated by Charles John Tibbits (1891) (transcription project)
• "Spielerglück" collected in Die Serapionsbrüder (volume 3, 1820)
  • "The Pharo Bank" translated anonymously (1855)
  • "Gambler's Luck" translated by John Thomas Bealby (1885) (transcription project)
• "Signor Formica" collected in Die Serapionsbrüder (volume 4, 1821)
  • "Salvator Rosa" translated anonymously (1855)
  • "Signor Formica" translated by John Thomas Bealby (1885) (transcription project)

• "Der Elementargeist" collected in Letzte Erzählungen (1821)
  • "The Elementary Spirit" translated by John Oxenford (1844) (transcription project)
• "Meister Johannes Wacht" collected in Letzte Erzählungen (1821)
  • "Master Johannes Wacht" translated by John Thomas Bealby (1885) (transcription project)

Ballet

• Coppélia. Grand ballet in Three Acts (c. 1908) with Arthur Saint-Léon (1821–1870); music by Léo Delibes (1836–1891)

Works about Hoffmann

• "E. T. W. Hoffmann" by Thomas Carlyle in German Romance (1827)
• "Life of Hoffmann" in Hoffmann's Strange Stories (1855)
• "Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm," by Flora Masson in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (12) (1881)
• "Biographical Notes" by John Thomas Bealby in Weird Tales (1885) (transcription project)
• "Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Hoffmann, Ernst Theodore Wilhelm," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
• "Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

On his works

• "Die Elixiere des Teufels," by Benjamin W. Wells in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)