Oldest son of the Jewish textile merchant Samson Heine. He studied
law and converted to protestantism. In 1821 he met Rahel and
Karl August Varnhagen von Ense and in 1822 he visited Hegel.
His first writings show a romantic style, but in 1825 he came
under the influence of socialism and his tone became more radical.
In 1827 he travelled to England and in 1828 to Italy. In 1834
he met his later companion Mathilde Mirat.
His satirical
writings were forbidden by the Deutsche Bundesversammlung on
December 10, 1835, but France soon afterwards granted him a
pension. Heine wrote in German as well as in French. In 1841
he met Wagner and in the same year he married Mathilde at Saint-Supice.
After he had become paralysed in 1848 as the result of an illnes
of the spinal marrow (he broke down at The Louvre) he wrote
pessimistic poetry, published in "Romanzero" (1851).
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• detested Börne, Ludwig
• was published by Campe, Julius
• was admired by Elisabeth von Bayern, Kaiserin von Österreich
• is cousin of Friedländer, Amalie
• employed Hillebrand, Karl Arnold
• was a friend of Marx, Karl Heinrich
• knew Stahr, Adolf
• visited Varnhagen von Ense, Rahel
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