E. T. A. Hoffmann

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann was born in 1776 in Königsberg, Prussia. His parents separated when he was young, and he was raised by his mother's family. He studied law at the University of Königsberg and worked as a Prussian government lawyer in several towns, including in Poland. He loved music above all, and later changed one of his names to Amadeus in honor of Mozart. When the Napoleonic Wars cost him his post, he worked as a music director, composer, critic and stage designer in Bamberg, Dresden and Leipzig; he composed an opera, Undine. He wrote famous essays on Beethoven's music. From 1814 he returned to work as a judge in Berlin and became known for his fantastic tales, which mix everyday life with the strange and supernatural, such as The Golden Pot and The Sandman. The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (1816) inspired the ballet The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. His stories also inspired Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann. He died in Berlin in 1822.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; he attended a Lutheran school and was buried in a Protestant cemetery. Source: Wikipedia