HEINE, HE IN RICH

(1797-1856), Ger. poet; 6. Dii eldorf, of Jewish parents; studied law at Bonn, Gottingen, Berlin; adopted Christianity, 1825; pub. Reisebilder, 1826; Buch der Lieder, 1827, which made him the most popular poet of Germany; visited England, 1837; Engliche Fragmente appeared, 1831. H. settled in Paris, 1831; after unhappy love affairs with his cousins; to this period belong Franzosische Zustande, 1833; Der Salon, 1834; Ludwig Borne, 1840; Die Romantische Schule, 1836 (prose works); Atta Troll, 1847; Roman cero, 1851 and Letzte Gedichte und Gedanken, 1835, 1855, rank among his finest poetical works; as perhaps the most cosmopolitan Ger. poet; belongs partly to Romantic movement, partly to ‘Young Germany’ revolt; great lyric and spiritual writer.