H. J. Burlingame

Hardin Jasper Burlingame (1852–1915) was an American magician and magic historian.

[1] Burlingame had taken lessons from the magician David Tobias Bamberg.

He later used the stage name "Jasper Bamberg" when he performed in Chicago.

[2] Burlingame is most well known for his book Hermann the Magician (1897), a biography of the magician Alexander Herrmann.

[3] He also wrote a biography of Baron Hartwig Seeman, a noted Swedish magician.