Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure… - E. T. A. Hoffmann

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Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race you thought to have planted for eternity?

E. T. A. Hoffmann

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ancestral-decay eternity

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Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822), better known by his pen name E. T. A. Hoffmann, was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, a fictionalized account.

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Native Name: Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

Alternative Names: Ernst Theodor Wilhelm. Hoffman • Ernst Theodor Amedeus Hoffmann • Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman • E.T.A. Hoffmann • Ernst Theodor Hoffmann • Amadeus Hoffman • Amadeus Hoffmann • E. T. Hoffmann • ernst theodor amadeus hoffmann • e. th. a. hoffmann • Ernst Theodore Wilhelm Hoffmann • Ernst T. A. Hoffmann • Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

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Poor, ill-advised Roderich! What evil power did you conjure up to poison in its first youth the race you thought to have planted for eternity? - E. T. A. Hoffmann

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