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; Nicholas von Hoffman is his son. He fought in the Russo-Japanese War and World War I, 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, 1936), describing his travels in Africa. Von Hoffman's photographs of the Mexican Revolution and of Theodore Roosevelt were celebrated. He was the cinematographer films including The Life of General Villa, (1914, [1]), featuring Pancho Villa himself, as well as The Marriage Bond (1916, dir. Lawrence Marston [2]). He was a member of the Explorers Club. [3] [4]
