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David Hoffman (1784–1854)
Hoffman, David. An American lawyer, and legal and historical writer; born at Baltimore, MD, Dec. 25, 1784; died in New York, Nov. 11, 1854. He was professor of law in the University of Maryland 1817–36. He wrote ‘Chronicles Selected from the Originals of Cartaphilus, the Wandering Jew’ (2 vols., 1853), being the beginning of what he intended to be a history of the world but never completed; ‘Thoughts on Men and Things’ (1837); ‘Viator, or a Peep into my Note-Book’ (1841); etc.