A satirical comedy followed one year later, named 'Die Mondzügler. In 1842 he published his first poetry collection, simply titled 'Gedichte' ('Poems', 1842). He often made drawings for young patients to calm them down whenever they were frightened or crying. Well respected in his city, Hoffmann published various essays about psychiatrical topics and was an active member of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, the Mozart Foundation and the freemasons' lodge.Īpart from psychiatry, Hoffmann also enjoyed writing stories, poems and drawing cartoons. But the job was far better paid and he gained an extraordinary reputation for curing many of his patients.
Hoffmann succeeded him as the new psychiatrist, despite lacking experience with mental patients. To his luck, a doctor from a local mental asylum happened to retire. In 1851 he graduated as a doctor and opened his own practice in Frankfurt. From 1844 on, Hoffmann lectured students in anatomy at the Dr. Between 18, the young man worked in a pauper's clinic. In 1829 Hoffmann started studying medicine, again motivated by his father. Hoffmann had to work hard to reach and maintain his father's expectancy levels. He expected his son to behave well and do his very best in school. While he got along fine with his stepmother, his father was a strict disciplinarian. His father remarried with his late wife's sister. Hoffmann's mother passed away when he still a child. Heinrich Hoffmann was born in 1819 in Frankfurt on Main as son of an architect and building inspector. It's one of the earliest German-language comic books, along with the works of Rodolphe Töpffer and Wilhelm Busch. 'Struwwelpeter' is also an important work in comic history. On the other hand, its horror reputation also explains why it outlasted many other 19th-century children's books. On one hand, the book is generally considered too disturbing for modern-day young readers. Yet 'Struwwelpeter' owes its lasting fame particularly to the gruesome and morbid stories and Hoffmann's chilling drawings. It's even the second most widely translated German-language book of all time, only surpassed by Grimm's fairy tales.
It has become a classic in children's literature, frequently reprinted, translated, bootlegged and parodied.
'Struwwelpeter' is a series of illustrated cautionary tales set to rhyme.
Today he is best remembered for what is perhaps the most infamous educational children's poetry collection of all time: 'Der Struwwelpeter' (1845). Heinrich Hoffmann was a 19th-century German psychiatrist who published poems and novels in his spare time. 'Die Geschichte vom Daumenlutscher', from 'Der Struwwelpeter' (1845).ĭr.
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