Professor Hoffmann

Professor Hoffmann
Born	Angelo John Lewis July 23 1839
Died	December 23 1919 (age 80)
Nationality	English
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, games, amusements and puzzles of his time.

He wrote a series of articles on magic for a boy's magazine (Every Boy's Annual) that was later expanded into his book Modern Magic. The pen name, Professor Hoffman, was used 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 one is named The Haunted Hat. If someone knows when it was published...

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)
• Later Magic (1903)
• King Koko (1904)
• Magical Tidbits (1911)
• Latest Magic (1918)

See Hoffmann's Five Foot Shelf of Magic by H. Adrian Smith in Tops, Vol. 1, no. 12, december 1936, page 47.

References

• Photo Genii 1951 May