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François-Benoît Hoffman
François-Benoît Hoffman (11 July 1760 – 25 April 1828) was a French playwright and critic, best known today for his operatic librettos, including those set to music by Étienne Méhul and Luigi Cherubini (most notably Cherubini's "Médée", 1797).
Career.
Hoffman was born in Nancy, and studied law at the University of Strasbourg. However, his stammer hindered his legal career, and he entered military service in Corsica. He served there for only a very short
Notice sur sa vie". Théatre. Tome 2. S. V-LV.
- P.[aul?] Jacquinet: "François Benoît Hoffman: sa vie, ses œuvres", Nancy 1878.
- "Stratonice": introduction to the edition of Hoffman and Méhul's opera by M. Elizabeth C. Bartlet (Pendragon Press, 1997)
- T. G. Waidelich: "„…imitée d’Aristophane“. Die Lisistrata von Hoffman und Solié (1802) als Bindeglied zu den Verschwornen von Castelli und Schubert mit einem Ausblick auf