Heinrich Hoffmann

Heinrich Hoffman (1804-1894) was a German physician, psychiatrist and writer. Today, most people know him as the author of Struwwelpeter. Struwwelpeter is a childrens' book he wrote. In it, he mostly shows what happens to children that do not behave as they should. When he was writing, he also used pen names Heulalius von Heulenburg, Reimerich Kinderlieb, Peter Struwwel and Polycarpus Gastfenger. Between 1835 and 1845, he was a doctor at a morgue in the city that is called Frankfurt am Main today. He was also a physician and obstetrician in Sachsenhausen (part of Frankfurt today). The clinic were he worked was for poor patients, that could not afford a doctor. From 1851 to 1881 he was the director of the Anstalt für Irre und Epileptische, which he co-founded.