The poet is considered one of the most vital German writers. He is regarded as the “last of the Romantic poets,” and at the same time as her conqueror. Heinrich Heine was well-known not only for his tremendous eloquence, but, above all, by his critical tone against the establishment. Literature, he went in the late Romantic and boys in Germany. In his works, he united the feelings of sadness and ironic observation. As a journalist, he founded not only the arts section, but also the critical tone. He was like no other, cooperate with all levels of society. Throughout his life he was outlawed in Germany because of his Jewish ancestry and criticism …Heinrich Heine was born on 13 December 1797 as the first son of a Jewish textile merchant, born in Dusseldorf.
Heine grew up in Frankfurt and Hamburg, where he also attended the school. From 1819 on, he studied law in Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1825 for completion. Already during this period that his first literary work, which he published under a pen name, but still. He founded with the help of his uncle in Hamburg, a trading company for English cloths, the company was dissolved with just one year. During his studies he became acquainted with the philosophy of Idealism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, from which evolved over the years a close friendship.
In October 1824 Heine visited Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Weimar. In 1825 he went to the Christian Protestant faith and was baptized in the Holy City in the name of Christian Johann Heinrich. The reason was that he as a Jew in Germany otherwise would have no legal careers may pursue. From 1826 the majority of his works was published by the Hamburg publisher Julius Campe. In the first year of co-published the first part of the “Travel Pictures,” “Homecoming,” “The Harz Journey” and “The Sea”. To work without ever learned in his profession, he traveled influenced by Hegel from 1827 to 1831 in England and Italy and in various German cities.
Heine criticized in his literary and journalistic works of the outdated feudal system of the German kingdom and the Dudodezstaaten. Often he was so exposed to the arbitrariness of the authorities. His time-critical writings and always acted on the thought of an ideal society based on the enjoyment of life, so he also joined to any party or movement. In 1831 he chose to leave Germany, and in May he went as a correspondent for the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung to Paris. Here he spent up to two small visits to Germany, the rest of his life. In 1834 he made the acquaintance in Paris with his girlfriend later Crescence Eugénie Meerut.
The following year, 1835, were banned in Prussia, the entire literature of all Jews in Germany, of which Heine’s works were also affected. 1836 Heine received by the French government emigration protection. In the same year he became ill with jaundice. 1837 he was seized with a dramatic eye disease, appeared late in the third volume of Heine’s “Solomon”. In 1841 he became acquainted with the German composer Richard Wagner and in summer he married in Saint-Sulpice Crescence Eugénie Meerut, which he called “Matilda”. In 1844, he aroused by his publication of “New Poems” and the politically-satirical poem “Germany, A Winter’s Tale” considerable attention. From 1845, his health worsened.
In 1848, he worked as a German rapporteur on the February Revolution in Paris. With a physical breakdown was diagnosed with a spinal cord Heine consumption. In the following years he was confined to his bed most of the time. From 1850 he worked on his memoirs.
Heinrich Heine, who was to operate in ancient age, died on 17 February 1856 in Paris, where he was buried three days later on the Montmartre cemetery.
