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  2. Heinrich Heine - Wikipedia

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    Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (/ ˈ h aɪ n ə /; German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaɪnə] ⓘ; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry , which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert ...

  3. Joaquin Miller - Wikipedia

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    Besides adopting the pen name "Joaquin", he later changed his middle name from Hiner to Heine to evoke the German poet Heinrich Heine. [7] While Miller was a young boy, probably between 1850 and 1852, [8] his family moved to Oregon and settled in the Willamette Valley, establishing a farm in what would become Lane County.

  4. Simon von Geldern - Wikipedia

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    Drawing of the globe from Von Geldern's diary. Simon von Geldern (1720–1774) was a German traveler and author.. He was born into a wealthy family of Court Jews. [1] Born in Dusseldorf, he became an adventurer, poet, gambler, and a traveler to the Middle East.

  5. Germany. A Winter's Tale - Wikipedia

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    Winter landscape near Schmitten, Hesse. The opening of the poem is the first journey of Heinrich Heine to Germany since his emigration to France in 1831. However it is to be understood that this is an imaginary journey, not the actual journey which Heine made but a literary tour through various provinces of Germany for the purposes of his commentary.

  6. Maximilian Meyer Heine - Wikipedia

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    Maximilian Meyer Heine (November 6, 1807 - November 6, 1879) was a German doctor and Russian state councilor. He served with the Russian Army during the Russo-Turkish War. He was the youngest brother of Heinrich Heine. He graduated from the universities of Berlin and Munich in 1829 and joined the Russian army as a surgeon. [1] He died in Berlin ...

  7. Ernst Hanfstaengl - Wikipedia

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    His mother was Katharine Wilhelmina Heine, daughter of Wilhelm Heine, a cousin of American Civil War Union Army general John Sedgwick. His godfather was Duke Ernst II of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . He had an elder sister, Erna , [ 2 ] two elder brothers Edgar and Egon, and a younger brother Erwine.

  8. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Wikipedia

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    Lessing formed a close connection with his cousin, Christlob Mylius, and decided to follow him to Berlin. In 1750, Lessing and Mylius teamed together to begin a periodical publication named Beiträge zur Historie und Aufnahme des Theaters. The publication ran only four issues, but it caught the public's eye and revealed Lessing to be a serious ...

  9. Guglielmo Ratcliff - Wikipedia

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    Guglielmo Ratcliff is a tragic opera in four acts by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Andrea Maffei, translated from the German play Wilhelm Ratcliff (1822) by Heinrich Heine. Mascagni had substantially finished the composition of Ratcliff before the success of his first opera, Cavalleria rusticana .