Dec 16, 2009
Heinrich Heine (HI-nuh) was born Chaim Harry Heine to Jewish parents in Düsseldorf, Prussia, on or about December 13, 1797. At the age of seventeen, he tried, unwillingly, to engage in a business career, first in Frankfurt and later in Hamburg under his rich uncle, Salomon Heine, a banker. There he fell in love with his uncle’s daughter, Amalie, who inspired his earliest lyrics, “Youthful Sorrows.” In 1819, although his interests were already decidedly literary, Heine attended the University of Bonn as a law student. A year later, he went to the University of Göttingen, from...
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