Heinrich Heine (Censorship (Ready Reference series))
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Heine was the oldest son of a Jewish merchant and a mother from a respected academic family. In 1825 he received a doctorate in law, one of the two German professions legally open to Jews—the other was medicine. It was mainly because of such discrimination that Heine converted to Christianity in 1825 and changed his first name from Harry to Heinrich. In 1831 he left Germany, mainly for political reasons, and settled in Paris, where he pursued his preferred career as a poet, journalist, and essayist, but he continued to write in German and for a German audience....
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