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Definition: Heine from Collins English Dictionary

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1 Heinrich (ˈhainrɪç). 1797–1856, German poet and essayist, whose chief poetic work is Das Buch der Lieder (1827). Many of his poems have been set to music, notably by Schubert and Schumann


Heine, Heinrich

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(hīn'rĭkh hī'nӘ), 1797–1856, German poet, b. Düsseldorf, of a Jewish family. One of the greatest of German lyric poets, he had a varied career. After failing in business he tried law but found it uncongenial and finally turned to history and literature. His first published poems and plays established him as a young romantic. In the literary salon of Rahel Varnhagen von Ense he met, among others, Fouqué, Chamisso, Hoffmann, Grabbe, and Immermann; some of these became life-long friends, others bitter enemies. Disillusioned with Germany and in political disgrace because of his liberal sympathies, he left for Paris (1831), where he supported the social ideals of the French Revolution, becoming for a time a Saint-Simonist. As the towering figure of the revolutionary literary movement Young Germany, he continued from Paris to disseminate French revolutionary ideas in Germany. He received a French government pension, worked as correspondent for German newspapers, and died after years of…
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Full text Article HEINE, HEINRICH 1797-1856

From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
Heinrich Heine's life and work spans the period from the Romantics, through Junges Deutschland (Young Germany) and Vormärz (anticipation of the March revolution of 1848), and into the later phases of the Biedermeier era and realism. It is not only the changing contexts of his work that make it…
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Full text Article Heine, (Christian Johann) Heinrich

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1797-1856 German poet and essayist Born of Jewish parents in Düsseldorf, he studied banking in Frankfurt and law in Bonn, Berlin and Göttingen. In Berlin in 1821 he published Gedichte ("Poems"), which was an immediate success, followed by Lyrisches Intermezzo (1823, "Lyrical Intermezzo"), the first…
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Full text Article Heine, Heinrich (1797–1856)

From The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
German poet and author, many of whose poems have been set to music by Franz Schubert, Felix *Mendelssohn , Robert *Schumann , and Johannes Brahms, among others. He received a doctorate of law from Göttingen, at which time he converted from Judaism to Christianity to improve his prospects for a post…
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German poet and critic, who lived most of his life in Paris. An incurable spinal disease left him bedridden from 1848. He became a prominent radical political journalist, writing essays on French and German culture and composing satirical verse. Alle kräftige Menschen lieben das Leben All great, …
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Full text Article Heinrich Heine 1797–1856

From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
German poet Dort, wo man Bücher Verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen. Wherever books will be burned, men also, in the end, are burned. Almansor (1823) l. 245 Auf Flügeln des Gesanges. On wings of song. title of song (1823) Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten , Dass ich so traurig bin; …
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Full text Article FORGIVENESS

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing. AUSTEN, Jane Pride and Prejudice (1813). Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. THE BIBLE ; Luke, 23:34. Good, to forgive;Best, to…
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Full text Article PINE

From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
American naturalist and essayist The pine has but one idea, and that is to mount heavenward by regular steps – tree of fate, tree of dark shadows and of mystery. Signs and Seasons Chapter II (p. 44 ) Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston Massachusetts USA . 1904. German poet A pine tree standeth lonely... …
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Full text Article JUDAISM

From Collins Dictionary of Quotations
His Majesty’s Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. BALFOUR, A. J. ‘ The Balfour Declaration ’, 1917. There is always a danger in Judaism of seeing history as a sort of poker game played between Jews and God, in which the presence of…
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Full text Article GAZELLE

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