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Heinrich Heine (1797–1856)
Heine, Heinrich (hī’nė). A German poet of the first rank; born at Düsseldorf, Dec. 13, 1797; died at Paris, Feb. 17, 1856. His chief works are: a volume of ‘Poems’ (1822); two tragedies, ‘Almansor’ and ‘Radcliff’ (1823); ‘Pictures of Travel’ (2 vols., 1826–27; 2 vols., 1830–31); ‘Book of Songs’ (1827); ‘History of Recent Polite Literature in Germany’ (2 vols., 1833); ‘The Salon’ (4 vols., 1835–40); ‘The Romantic School’ (1836); ‘Shakespeare’s Maids and Matrons’ (1839); ‘New Poems’ (1844); ‘Germany: A Winter’s Tale’ (1844); ‘The Romancers’ (1851); ‘Doctor Faust’ (1851); ‘Miscellaneous Writings’ (3 vols., 1854); ‘Complete Works’ (22 vols., 1861–66). (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).