Hormann

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HCR diary 29.11.1820 "at Aders - a large party there - chiefly of German merchants, including my old acquaintance Hormann"

Marquardt II p 82-5 Johannes Hörmann born in Hamburg active in business in London but without his own firm, very musical, introduced to Robinson by William Rough (DNB 1772/3-1838). He left England in 1811 and returned in 1816, living from 1817 with William Benecke, through which connection Robinson met Benecke. Hormann worked on translating German works into English, he returned to Germany in 1821 but Robinson saw him in England on 30.1.1825 when "Hormann introduced me to his intended wife, a pleasant woman. H. is an old bachelor who, having a good situation offered him in Germany, avails himself of it wisely. He is a very amiable man" (Marquardt II p 103 n 293