Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine: Table of Dates

1797

13 December: Born in Düsseldorf.

1819

Attends University of Bonn, studying law as his principal subject.

1820

Transfers to University of Göttingen; rusticated for planning to fight a duel.

1821

Moves to University of Berlin.

1822

Publishes Poems.

1823

Publishes Tragedies with a Lyrical Intermezzo.

1824

Returns to Göttingen to complete his studies.
September-October: Walking tour through the Harz Mountains.
2 October: Meeting with Goethe in Weimar.

1825

Conversion to Protestantism; graduation from Göttingen.

1826

The Harz Journey published in book form as part of Travel Picutres I.

1827

Publishes Book of Songs; Travel Pictures II, including Ideas: The Book of Le Grand.

1830

July Revolution in Paris.

1831

The Town of Lucca published as part of Supplement to the Travel Pictures.
(Later reprinted as Travel Pictures IV).
Heine moves to Paris, where he lives for the rest of his life.

1835

On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany published in book form;
The Romantic School.
10 December: Heine's writings, along with those of the so-called "Young German" school of writers, are officially banned throughout Germany.

1841

Marries Crescence-Eugénie Mirat ("Mathilde").

1842

Writes Atta Troll: A Midsummer Night's Dream, a romantic and humorous narrative poem, satirizing many targets, including German political poets (published 1847).

1843

Revisits Germany.

1844

Friendship with Karl Marx; publication of Germany: A Winter's Tale, a fictionalized account of his visit, and of New Poems.

1848

Outbreak of revolutions in Berlin, Paris, Milan, Naples, Vienna, Prague. Heine collapses with a painful and parlyzing illness; bedridden for the last eight years of his life.

1851

Publishes Romanzero, a major collection of poems.

1853

(Probably) Heine writes the Confessions and much of the Memoirs.

1854

Publishes Poems 1853 and 1854.

1856

17 February: Dies; buried at Montmartre.

Works Cited

• Branscombe, Peter, ed. Heinrich Heine: Selected Verse (New York: Penguin Books, 1993), pp. 28-29.
  
  
• Heine, Heinrich. Atta Troll: Ein Sommernachstraum / Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen (Kehl: SWAN Buch-Vertrieb GmbH, 1993).
  
  
• Robertson, Ritchie, ed. Heinrich Heine: Selected Prose (New York: Penguin Books, 1968).