Master Martin, the Cooper, and His Journeyman
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In the proud guild world of sixteenth-century Nuremberg, a wealthy cooper vows his daughter shall marry only a master of the craft – and three suitors set out to win her. Master Martin, the Cooper, and His Journeyman brims with old-world charm.
Published in 1817 and later gathered into The Serapion Brethren, this warm historical tale evokes the workshops, festivals, and rivalries of Renaissance Germany with loving detail. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 – 1822), born in Königsberg, East Prussia, was a jurist, composer, and one of the founding voices of German Romanticism.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776–1822) was a German author, artist, and composer who is best remembered for his story “The Nutcracker and the King of Mice.”
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