Hoffmann

[hof-muh n; for 1, 2 also German hawf-mahn]

noun

E(rnst) T(he·o·dor) A(ma·de·us) (Wil·helm) [ernst tey-aw-dohr ah-mah-dey-oo s vil-helm] /ɛrnst ˈteɪ ɔˌdoʊr ˌɑ mɑˈdeɪ ʊs ˈvɪl hɛlm/, 1776–1822, German author, composer, and illustrator.
Jo·sef [joh-zuh f, -suh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf, -səf/, 1870–1956, Viennese architect and designer, born in Austria-Hungary.
Ro·ald [roh-uh l, -ahl] /ˈroʊ əl, -ɑl/, born 1937, U.S. chemist, born in Poland: Nobel Prize 1981.

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Examples from the Web for hoffmann

Contemporary Examples of hoffmann

Hitler responded by buying her (through Hoffmann) an apartment five minutes from his flat, where Ilse came to live too.
New Biography Explores the Life and Myth of Eva Braun
Andrew Roberts
November 10, 2011

Historical Examples of hoffmann

In this sense Matthys completed the transformation begun by Hoffmann.
German Culture Past and Present
Ernest Belfort Bax
That evening they dined out, and went to "The Tales of Hoffmann."
Beyond
John Galsworthy
Its chiefs (Hoffmann, Poe, et al.) are classed by critics as realists.
Essay on the Creative Imagination
Th. Ribot
I shall never forget the hour when I first read it to Hoffmann.
Peter Schlemihl
Adelbert von Chamisso
The episode is furnished with a beginning and ending original with Hoffmann.
The Translations of Beowulf
Chauncey Brewster Tinker