NMLP P-044057 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
Struwwelpeter (Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder)
Heinrich Hoffmann · Literarische Anstalt (J. Rütten), Frankfurt am Main · 1845
German-language original, Frankfurt 1845 — the census claim is correct, and the edition sequence is the whole story on this title. Second edition 1846: pseudonym changed to "Heinrich Kinderlieb", two stories added. THIRD EDITION, 1847: first to carry "Der Struwwelpeter" in the title — this confirms the census note that the Struwwelpeter title dates from 1847. Fifth edition, also 1847: expanded to the definitive ten stories on 24 plates and the first to bear Hoffmann's full name. FIRST ENGLISH: "The English Struwwelpeter; or, Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures for Little Children", Leipzig: Friedrich Volckmar, 1848, an anonymous translation — note it is a Leipzig-printed English book, not a London one, and it is a first-in-English rather than any kind of true first. An American "Slovenly Peter" followed in 1849.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044057 for "Struwwelpeter (Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder)" by Heinrich Hoffmann (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044057, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).