Professor Hoffmann

Professor Hoffmann
Born	Angelo John Lewis July 23, 1839 London
Died	December 23, 1919 (age 80) Bexhill, Sussex
Nationality	British
Categories	Books by Professor Hoffmann

Professor Louis Hoffmann (July 23, 1839 - December 23, 1919), born Angelo John Lewis in England, was a lawyer, professor and the leading writer on magic, and on the games, amusements and puzzles of his time.

Biography

Professor Hoffmann wrote a series of articles on magic for a boy's magazine (Every Boy's Annual) that was later expanded into his classic book on magic, Modern Magic, first published in 1876. He used the pen name, Professor Hoffman, because he feared that his professional prospects as a lawyer would be injured if it became known that he possessed such an intimate knowledge of the arts of deception.

He was also the author of a novel for kids entitled Conjurer Dick (1886).

Another of his works is entitled The Haunted Hat: A magical short story.[1] (If someone knows when it was published...)

Magic related books

• 48 articles first serialized in Routledge's Every Boy's Paper became Modern Magic in (1876)
• The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic by Robert-Houdin (1878) (Translator)
• Drawing Room Conjuring by L.P. (1887) (Translator)
• Herrman's Tricks With Cards (unauthorized, 1889)
• Tricks With Cards(1889)
• More Magic (1890)
• Puzzles Old and New (1893)
• Conjuring Tricks with Coins, Watches, Rings, and Handkerchiefs (ca. 1900)
• Later Magic (1903)
• King Koko (1904)
• Magical Titbits (1911)
• Latest Magic (1918)

References

• Photo Genii 1951 May
• The Sphinx, Vol. XXXVIII, No. Six, August 1939, Professor Louis Hoffmann's Centennial, Biograhy, page 155