Carl von Hoffman

Carl von Hoffman (St. Petersburg, Russia, c1889 - New York, NY, USA, 8 July 1982) was a soldier, adventurer, author, and photographer of German ancestry. He was a descendant of Melchior Hoffman; journalist Nicholas von Hoffman is his son.

Captain Hoffman was a German military attaché with the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese War. He was reported to have been "rescued by the Japanese" after the fall of [Battle of Port Arthur|Port Arthur] . [National Library of New Zealand: [http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=TT19040827.2.4&cl=&srpos=0&st=1&e=-------en--1----0-all "Russo-Japanese War,"] "Tuapeka Times" (New Zealand). Volume XXXVII, Issue 5194. August 27, 1904. p. 1.] He and other military attachés and war correspondent observers were photographed with the staff of Gen. Kuroki Tamemoto after the Battle of Shaho. [Davis, Richard Harding "et al." (1905). [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/21581015 "The Russo-Japanese war."] ]

He participated in World War I, serving in the Russian army, and then under Admiral Kolchak on the White Russian side in the Russian Civil War. Von Hoffman is said by some sources to have been on the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition in 1913; however, Theodore Roosevelt does not mention him in his memoir of the expedition, so this must be dismissed. Von Hoffman wrote "Jungle Gods" (New York, H. Holt and Company [c1929] ) and "Jerry on Safari: A 7,000 Mile Journey from Cairo to the Cape" (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1936), describing his travels in Africa. Von Hoffman's photographs of the Mexican Revolution and of Theodore Roosevelt were celebrated. He was the cinematographer on films including "The Life of General Villa," (1914, [http://207.171.166.140/title/tt0004223/] ), featuring Pancho Villa himself, as well as "The Marriage Bond" (1916, dir. Lawrence Marston [https://afionline.org/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=1&Movie=18127] ). He was a member of the Explorers Club.

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* Davis, Richard Harding "et al." (1905). [http://books.google.com/books?id=z_dyHgAACAAJ&dq=Russo-Japanese+War:+A+Photographic+and+Descriptive+Review+of+the+Great+Conflict+in+the+Far+East.&client=firefox-a "The Russo-Japanese war; a photographic and descriptive review of the great conflict in the Far East, gathered from the reports, records, cable despatches, photographs, etc., etc., of Collier's war correspondents"] New York: P. F. Collier & Son. [http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/21581015 OCLC: 21581015]

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