Professor Hoffmann (1839–1919)
Author of Modern Magic
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
There is another author called Louis Hoffman (note the spelling); please do not combine that author page with this. Works on magic and games are Professor Hoffmann's domain.
Image credit: Image from Latest magic, being original conjuring tricks (1918) by Professor Hoffmann
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Works by Professor Hoffmann
Drawing-Room Conjuring 5 copies
Card Tricks Without Apparatus 4 copies
Selected patience games 3 copies
Card tricks with apparatus 3 copies
Arithmetical puzzles 3 copies
The Modern Hoyle or How to Play: Whist, Euchre, Chess, Cribbage, Dominoes, Draughts, Backgammon, Nap, Poker and Bezique (1887) 2 copies
Miscellaneous Conjuring Tricks 2 copies
Mechanical Puzzles 2 copies
Card and Table Games 2 copies
The wizard's pocket book 2 copies
Miscellaneous puzzles 2 copies
Baccarat, fair and foul : being an explanation of the game, and a warning against its dangers (1977) 2 copies
Magical titbits 2 copies
The Book of Table Games 1 copy
The Young Wizard 1 copy
Tips for Tricyclists 1 copy
Sundry Tricks and Sleights 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Lewis, Angelo John
- Other names
- Hoffmann, Professor (pen name)
- Birthdate
- 1839-07-23
- Date of death
- 1919-12-23
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- 12, Crescent Place, St. Pancras, London, England, UK
- Education
- University of Oxford (Wadham College)
- Occupations
- barrister (lawyer)
- Short biography
- Married Mary Ann Avery at St. Mark's church, Regents Park, London on 12 May 1864. They had two children: Leonard and Maude.
- Disambiguation notice
- There is another author called Louis Hoffman (note the spelling); please do not combine that author page with this. Works on magic and games are Professor Hoffmann's domain.
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Professor Hoffmann is the pen name of London-born Angelo John Lewis (1839-1919). A barrister by vocation, Professor Hoffmann was by avocation a magician. We are indebted to him for the books he wrote about magic, especially Modern Magic (1876), More Magic(1889), and target="_top">Later Magic (1903). Professor Hoffmann was the first person to really teach people in English how to perform magic tricks for entertainment. We owe a debt of gratitude to Professor Hoffmann not only for his own writings, but for translating the works of Robert-Houdin, "The Father of Modern Magic," from the original French into English: The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic (1877) and The Secrets of Stage Conjuring (1881). Houdini (1874-1926) described Professor Hoffmann as “the Brightest Star in the Firmament of Magical Literature.”… (more)