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Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaɪnə] ⓘ; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry , which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz ...
Mar 12, 2024 · Heinrich Heine was a German poet whose international literary reputation and influence were established by the Buch der Lieder (1827; The Book of Songs), frequently set to music, though the more sombre poems of his last years are also highly regarded.
The lyrics, collected in Romanzero (1851) and Gedichte 1853 und 1854 (Poems: 1853 and 1854), are considered to be the finest poems he ever wrote. Heine is buried in the cemetery at Montmarte in Paris. Heinrich Heine was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, to assimilated Jewish parents.
Dec 18, 2020 · He found commonalities between German peasants and ordinary Jews, both of them poor and downtrodden, but such commonalities were belied by popular antisemitism. He was a revolutionary in spirit, yet he rejected the ideology of his third cousin, Karl Marx, as well as other revolutionary ideologies of his age.
Heinrich Heine, orig. Harry Heine, (born Dec. 13, 1797, Düsseldorf—died Feb. 17, 1856, Paris, France), German poet. Born of Jewish parents, he converted to Protestantism to enter careers that he never actually pursued. He established his international literary reputation with The Book of Songs (1827), a collection of bittersweet love poems.
Apr 2, 2024 · Christian Johann Heinrich Heine ( December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was a journalist, an essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. Jewish by birth, he converted to Lutheran Christianity as an adult. Contents. 1 Quotes. 1.1 The Romantic School (1836) 2 Disputed. 3 Misattributed. 4 Quotes about Heine. 5 External links.
May 18, 2018 · Heinrich Heine >The German author Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) is best known for his lyric >poems, a number of which are considered among the best in German literature > [1]. His essays on German literary, political, and philosophical thought >contain remarkable and frequently prophetic insights.
