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This author incorporated friends like Theodor von Hippel and David Koreff into a Decameron-esque collection that outlines his elusive Serapion principle. The protagonist of a story by this author receives a jewelry box containing the couplet “a lover who is afraid of thieves / is not worthy of love.” Ernst Jentsch analyzed the “intellectual uncertainty” of a story by this author in which a telescope salesman advertises “pretty (*) eyes, pretty eyes.” Along with Poe, (-5[1])this author is often cited as the creator of the modern detective story for his novella Mademoiselle de Scuderi. Sigmund Freud’s essay “The Uncanny” examines a story by this author in which Nathanael realizes that (10[1])Olympia is an automaton created by Coppelius, whom he associates with the title mythical night visitor. For 10 points, name this German author (10[1])of “The Sandman.” (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: E. T. A. Hoffmann [or Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann or Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann] (The first sentence refers to Die Serapionsbrüder.)
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