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Charles Fenno Hoffman
Charles Fenno Hoffman

Charles Fenno Hoffman (February 7, 1806 New York City – June 7, 1884 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) was an American author and poet. Events 457 - Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1074 - Battle of Montesarchio in which the Prince Year 1806 ( MDCCCVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The City of New York Events 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins Year 1884 ( MDCCCLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Harrisburg is the Capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States of America When 11 years old, his leg was crushed by a boating accident and had to be amputated, but he was not deterred thereby from athletics and an open-air life. Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma or Surgery.

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Biography

He was the son of New York State Attorney General Josiah Ogden Hoffman and Maria Fenno Hoffman (1781-1823, daughter of John Fenno). The New York State Attorney General is the chief legal officer of the State of New York. Josiah Ogden Hoffman ( April 14, 1766 Newark, Essex County New Jersey - January 24, 1837 New York City) was John Fenno (Aug 12 1751 ( OS) - Sept 14 1798 was a Federalist Party editor and major figure in the History of American newspapers. He attended New York University and Columbia College. New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City. History Columbia College was founded as King’s College by royal charter of King George II of England in the He was admitted to the bar at 21, though he practiced law only intermittently. A bar association is a Professional body of Lawyers Some bar associations are responsible for the regulation of the legal profession in their Jurisdiction

In 1833 he led a group of other students in the Eucleian Society in establishing the Knickerbocker Magazine, which he edited for the first three issues before passing duties on to Lewis Gaylord Clark. Year 1833 ( MDCCCXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, was a Literary magazine of New York City, founded by Charles Fenno Hoffman in 1833 Lewis Gaylord Clark (1808-1873 was an American editor and the brother of Willis Gaylord Clark. [1] In 1836, Park Benjamin, Sr. merged his New England Monthly Magazine with the American Monthly and hired Hoffman as editor, though he left to join the New York Mirror a year later. Park Benjamin Sr (1809–1864 was well known in his time as an American Poet, Journalist, editor and founder of several Newspapers The New-York Mirror was a Newspaper published in New York City under many variant titles including The Evening Mirror from 1844 to 1898 [2]

Hoffman's first book was A Winter in the Far West (1835), recounting his travels as far west as St. Louis, Missouri. [3] It was followed by Wild Scenes in Forest and Prairie (1837) based on actual experiences in search of health. He wrote a successful novel, Greyslaer (1840),[4] based on the murder of Colonel Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp, known as the Beauchamp-Sharp Tragedy—an event that several writers, including Thomas Holley Chivers and William Gilmore Simms, also fictionalized. Solomon Porcius Sharp (August 22 1787 &ndash November 7 1825 was attorney general of Kentucky and a member of both the United States Congress and of the Kentucky Jereboam Orville Beauchamp ( September 6, 1802 &ndash July 7, 1826) was an American lawyer convicted murderer and one of the central figures Thomas Holley Chivers (October 18 1807 – December 18 1858 was an American doctor-turned- poet from the state of Georgia. William Gilmore Simms (April 17 1806 &ndash June 11 1870 was a poet novelist and historian from the American South whose Novels achieved great prominence during [5]

Hoffman's fame rested chiefly upon his poems, first collected in The Vigil of Faith (1842). Year 1842 ( MDCCCXLII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Literary critic Rufus Wilmot Griswold that year dedicated twice as much space to Hoffman than any other author in his respected anthology The Poets and Poetry of America. Rufus Wilmot Griswold (February 13 1812 – August 27 1857 was an American anthologist, editor, Poet, and Critic. [6] Griswold helped Hoffman publish The Echo, another collection of poetry, in 1844. [7] Hoffman was also popular for his his songs. From a devoutly Lutheran family he nevertheless dealt with religious ideas in his writing from an inquisitive and open viewpoint. He became the editor of The New-York Book of Poetry, which first attributed A Visit From St. Nicholas to Clement Clarke Moore. Clement Clarke Moore ( July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) is the credited author of A Visit from St He remained a successful editor and author throughout the 1840s.

Insanity

Under the strain of work, he went insane in 1849,[8] supposedly after a servant used his manuscripts to start a fire. Traditionally insanity or madness is the behaviour whereby a person flouts societal norms and may become a danger to himself and others He was hospitalized and released in April 1849 and accepted a position with the Department of State in Washington, D.C. By autumn, however, he was declared permanently insane. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D [9] He spent the last 35 years of his life in the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, (now part of Columbia University) and then a state asylum in Pennsylvania.

References

  1. ^ Pattee, Fred Lewis. The First Century of American Literature: 1770–1870. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1966. p. 493
  2. ^ Bayless, Joy. Rufus Wilmot Griswold: Poe's Literary Executor. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1943. p. 28
  3. ^ Pattee, Fred Lewis. The First Century of American Literature: 1770–1870. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1966. p. 493
  4. ^ Pattee, Fred Lewis. The First Century of American Literature: 1770–1870. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1966. p. 493
  5. ^ Whited, Stephen R. (2002). "Kentucky Tragedy", in Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan: The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Associate Editor: Todd W. Taylor, LSU Press, pp. 404–405. ISBN 0807126926. Retrieved on 2008-01-24. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 41 - Gaius Caesar (Caligula, known for his eccentricity and cruel Despotism, is Assassinated by his disgruntled  
  6. ^ Pattee, Fred Lewis. The First Century of American Literature: 1770–1870. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1966. p. 494
  7. ^ Bayless, Joy. Rufus Wilmot Griswold: Poe's Literary Executor. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1943. p. 276
  8. ^ Pattee, Fred Lewis. The First Century of American Literature: 1770–1870. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1966. p. 494
  9. ^ Bayless, Joy. Rufus Wilmot Griswold: Poe's Literary Executor. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1943. p. 149

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature is a collection of biographies of writers by John William Cousin (1849-1910 published in 1910 London, J. M. Dent & sons; New York, E. P. Dutton.

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