Author - Johan Georg Hohman
Johann Georg Hohman (English spelling: John George Hohman) was a Pennsylvania German printer and bookseller, compiling collections of herbal remedies, magical healings, and charms. He immigrated to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1802, settling near Reading, in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, where he printed and sold publications and practiced and instructed in the arts of folk magic and folk religion which later became known as pow-wow. Hohman's best-known work is the collection of prayers and recipes for folk-healing titled the Long Lost Friend, published in German in 1820 as Der Lange Verborgene Freund.
Johann Georg Hohman (English spelling: John George Hohman) was a Pennsylvania German printer and bookseller, compiling collections of herbal remedies, magical healings, and charms. He immigrated to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1802, settling near Reading, in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country, where he printed and sold publications and practiced and instructed in the arts of folk magic and folk religion which later became known as pow-wow. Hohman's best-known work is the collection of prayers and recipes for folk-healing titled the Long Lost Friend, published in German in 1820 as Der Lange Verborgene Freund.
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Johan Georg Hohman
Der Lange Verborgene FreundThe Original German Version of the Long Lost Fr...The Original German Version of the Long Lost Friend (German Edition) Distelfink Press has digitally restored Johann Georg Hohman's 1828 Ephrata edition of Der Lange Verborgene Freund. The original ...
