![]() ![]() He is the subject of the historical novel, 98 Reasons for Being. ![]() ![]() From 1851, he was director of the municipal psychiatry in Frankfurt. In Frankfurt/Germany there is a Heinrich-Hoffmann-Museum Frankfurt. Zwiebel (As a common noun, this would mean "onion") Peter Struwwel (This name reverses the order of the components of "Struwwelpeter".) Heinrich Kinderlieb (The surname means roughly "love of children") Heinrich Hoffmann-Donner (The second half of the compound surname would mean "thunder" as a common noun, or a name for the Germanic thunder-god Thor.) LibriVox recording of Der Struwwelpeter by Heinrich Hoffman, in German. Polykarpus Gastfenger (The given name is the German version of that of a Christian martyr the surname sounds like "Gastfänger", which could be a common noun for "guest-catcher".) ![]() Heinrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist, who also wrote some short works including Der Struwwelpeter (German for either "slovenly Peter" or "shock-haired Peter"), an illustrated book portraying children misbehaving. Read in the original German by Roman Buettner. Note: There is more than one Heinrich Hoffman. LibriVox recording of Der Struwwelpeter, by Heinrich Hoffmann. ![]()
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