ADHD - An Illustrated historical overview

The house of Hoffmann´s birth in the Fressgass, Frankfurt, Germany. Struwwelpeter Photos and pictures contributed by the Struwwelpeter-Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. H einrich Hoffmann (1809–1894) was born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, the son of the architect Jacob Hoffmann and his wife Caroline née Lausberg. His mother, who belonged to the upper class, was in poor health and died in 1810, when Heinrich was only six months old. Three years after her death, Jacob Hoffmann married her sister, Antoinette Lausberg. Hoffmann described her as a loving mother to him and his two step-sisters, Sophie and Berta. Hoffmann left a versatile life´s work, as a citizen of Frankfurt, as a children's author, as a writer of poems and satires, as a psychiatrist, and as a family man. Hoede and Bauer characterized Hoffmann´s life as lying between "wit and delusion".