Heinrich Hoffmann (* 13. June 1809 in Frankfurt/Main; "† 20 September 1894 in Frankfurt/Main; Aliases Reimerich child-dear, Peter Struwwel) a psychiatrist was and is the author of the Struwwelpeters.

Life

Hoffmann studied medicine in Heidelberg, where it followed the Corps Alemannia. Starting from 1851 he was a director of the urban mental hospital in Frankfurt/Main. It is considered as first representatives of the youth psychiatry.

World-wide became it admits through to be from him with pictures equipped Kinderbuch Struwwelpeter (1844). Probably 1858 provided Hoffmann a new version with changed pictures; on this are based all following expenditures Struwwelpeter.

Works

• The Breviarium of the marriage, 1833
• Poems, 1842
• The , 1843
• Merry stories and quaint pictures for children of 3-6 years, 1844.
• To become hand booklet for or abridged guidance in few days a people man, 1848.
• Heulerspiegel. Reports from the diary Mr. Heulalius von Heulenburg, 1849
• The true and outlaws limping messenger (2 volumes), 1850 to 1851
• King nussknacker and the poor Reinhold, 1851
• The physiology of the sense Hallucinationen, 1851
• Bastian the sluggard, 1854
• In the sky and on earth. Cordial and Scherzliches from the child world, 1857
• All soul booklet, a humoristic Friedhofsanthologie, 1858
• Observations and experiences over soul disturbances and epilepsy in the lunatic asylum to Frankfurt, 1851-1858, 1859
• The bathing resort salt hole, 1860
• A song book for natural scientists and physicians, 1867
• Prince and Perlenfein with their dear Eselein, 1871
• On cheerful paths. Collected poems, 1873

In addition as picture books appeared

• Melodies to Struwwelpeter
• Unterm fairy tale tree
• Kaspers merry capers
• The island Marzipan
• The small ABC contactor
• Young Purzelmann
• Laughing children
• Dckchen

The Urmanuskript of the book quaint stories and merry pictures, which contains Struwwelpeter, lie in the Germanic national museum (8"° Hs 100921, 21x16,8 cm).

Exhibitions

• 2003 Nuremberg, Germanic national museum: In the focus August 2003

Literature

• Hoffmann, Heinrich, in: Meyers encyclopedia, 4. Aufl. 1888, Bd. 8, P. 616
• Ursula Peter: "” Quaint stories and merry pictures "“, Heinrich Hoffmann Urmanuskript"” Struwwelpeter "“, in: monthly indicator. Museums and exhibitions in Nuremberg, August 2003, P. 2-3;

Related links

• http://www.heinrich-hoffmann-museum.de/ - the Heinrich Hoffmannmuseum in Frankfurt/Main

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