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Hoffmann   /hˈɔfmən/   Listen
Hoffmann

noun
1.
Austrian architect known for his use of rectilinear units (1870-1956).  Synonym: Josef Hoffmann.
2.
German chemist (1818-1892).  Synonym: August Wilhelm von Hoffmann.
3.
United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937).  Synonym: Roald Hoffmann.
4.
German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822).  Synonyms: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann.






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"Hoffmann" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Buddhism has been asserted for Japan as well as for Korea and Tibet (H. Hoffmann, Quellen zur Geschichte der tibetischen Bon-Religion, Mainz 1950, p. 220 f.). A case could be made for Burma. In China, Buddhism was later again used as a ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard

... color, or pictures finished under the stress of some imaginary woe, in which he gave his whole attention to the drawing, and left the color to take care of itself. He is a constant disappointment to his friends and the public; yet Hoffmann would have worshiped him for his daring experiments in the realms of art. When Bridau is wholly himself he is admirable, and as praise is sweet to him, his disgust is great when one praises the failures in which he alone discovers all that ...
— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac

... literary evolutionists who, in their whim of seeing in every original writer a copy of some predecessor, have declared that Hawthorne is derived from Tieck, and Poe from Hoffmann, just as Dickens modelled himself on Smollett and Thackeray followed in the footsteps of Fielding. In all four cases the pupil surpassed the master,—if haply Tieck and Hoffmann can be considered as even remotely the masters of Hawthorne and Poe. When Coleridge was told ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 • Various



Words linked to "Hoffmann" :   Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, architect, author, designer, chemist, writer



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