E. T. A. Hoffmann, German composer, critic, and jurist (born 1776)

E. T. A. Hoffmann

German Romantic author (1776–1822)

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann 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…