Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine was a jewish German poet and propaganda writer used in program Romanticism. He was educated at University of Bonn by August Schlegel, University of Göttingen and Humboldt University of Berlin. His patrons were his uncle, millionaire banker Salomon Heine and James Mayer Rothschild (patron of Giacomo Rossini, Frederic Chopin, jesuit Délacroix, Honoré de Balzac). He was influenced by GWF Hegel. He was related to Young Hegelian Karl Marx who wrote the Communist Manifesto, commissioned by the Communist League (Karl Schapper, affiliated with Giuseppe Mazzini of the Carbonari). Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn (grandson of Moses Mendelssohn), Richard Strauss, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner and Carl Orff composed music for his Lieder. | ![]() |
His brother Gustav was engaged with Bertha von Suttner (Nobel Peace Prize, House of Kinsky).
His cousin Charles Heine married Cécile Furtado, related to Abraham Furtado of Napoleon's Sanhedrin, who funded the Pasteur Institute of Louis Pasteur (vaccination agenda).
In 1831, after the July Revolution, he moved to Paris and met with Gérard de Nerval (French Romanticism), Ludwig Börne (Loeb) and Hector Berlioz. He wrote for the Allgemeine Zeitung. He wrote De l'Alemagne as a reaction to Germaine de Stael's book.
He was part of the Young Germany movement with Heinrich Laube and the Science of Judaism movement with Samuel Luzzato, Leopold Zunz and Heinrich Graetz.
In 1843 Karl Marx moved to Paris.
He died from lead poisoning.
In 1933 the Nazi Party (controlled opposition) burned books of Heine (called 'degenerate' by Alfred Rosenberg) as a publicity stunt.
In 1965 the University of Düsseldorf was named Heinrich Heinz University.
Max Fritsch and Jürgen Habermas (Frankfurt School) were awarded the Heinrich Heine Prize.
born 12/13/1797, in Düsseldorf.
died 2/17/1856.