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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 .
Like many of his siblings, Michael Kennedy attended Harvard and had an avid interest in politics—he ran his uncle Ted Kennedy's 1994 senate re-election campaign and reportedly even considered ...
Gustav Heine, after 1870 Gustav Freiherr Heine von Geldern (18 June 1812, in Düsseldorf – 15 November 1886, in Vienna), was a German-Austrian journalist and press publisher. He was born into a Jewish family in Düsseldorf; one of his brothers was Heinrich Heine .
Here, Eunice Shriver, Jacqueline Onassis, Kara Kennedy and her dad, Teddy (at the time a Democratic candidate for president), and Ethel Kennedy hanging out together. Bettmann - Getty Images 1980