Heinrich Heine

Harry Heine was born in 1797 in Düsseldorf into a Jewish family. His uncle Salomon, a wealthy banker in Hamburg, took him into his bank, then enabled him to study law at Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin. A doctor of law in 1825, he was baptised the same year into the Lutheran faith to improve his career prospects and took the first name Heinrich. Settled in Paris in 1831, he remained there until his death; his works were banned in Prussia in 1833, then throughout the German Confederation in 1835. Paralysed in 1848, he spent his last eight years bedridden and died in Paris in 1856.

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• PoetryDoktor Faust: A Dance PoemDer Doktor Faust. Ein TanzpoemHeinrich Heine · 1851LiteraturePublic domain