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He was born in New York City on February 7, 1806, the son of New York Attorney General Josiah Ogden Hoffman and Maria (Fenno) Hoffman (1781–1823, daughter of John Fenno).
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He was born in New York City on February 7, 1806, the son of New York Attorney General Josiah Ogden Hoffman and Maria (Fenno) Hoffman (1781–1823, daughter of John Fenno).
He attended New York University and Columbia College, and studied law with Harmanus Bleecker.
When 11 years old, his leg was crushed by a boating accident and had to be amputated. He was admitted to the bar in 1827, but he practiced law only intermittently. In 1833, he led a group of other students in the Eucleian Society in establishing the The Knickerbocker magazine, which he edited for the first three issues before passing duties on to Lewis Gaylord Clark.
In 1836, Park Benjamin, Senior 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.
Hoffman"s first book was, recounting his travels as far west as Saint Louis, Missouri. lieutenant was followed by based on actual experiences in search of health.
He wrote a successful novel,, 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. Hoffman"s version, however, had little in common with the true event.
Hoffman"s fame rested chiefly upon his poems, first collected in The Vigil of Faith (1842).
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. Griswold helped Hoffman publish The Echo, another collection of poetry, in 1844. Hoffman was also popular for 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 Saint Nicholas to Clement Clarke Moore. Hoffman remained a successful editor and author throughout the 1840s.
He officially began a new role as editor of The Literary World magazine on May 1, 1847. The weekly journal, which also included Evert Augustus Duyckinck and George Long Duyckinck, ceased publication in 1853.
Insanity Under the strain of work, he went insane in 1849, supposedly after a servant used his manuscripts to start a fire.
He was hospitalized briefly in April 1849 and, after his release, he accepted a position with the Department of State in Washington, District of Columbia By autumn, however, he was declared permanently insane. He spent the last 35 years of his life in the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, then a state asylum in Pennsylvania, and on land which later became part of Columbia University. lieutenant was at this hospital that he was diagnosed with chronic mania, or manic-depressive psychosis.
lieutenant was also at this state hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that Hoffman died on June 7, 1884.
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