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HEINSE, JOHANN JAKOB WILHELM (1749-1803)

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HEINSE, JOHANN See also:JAKOB WILHELM (1749-1803) , See also:German author, was See also:born at Langewiesen near See also:Ilmenau in Thuringia on the 16th of See also:February 1749. After attending the gymnasium at Schleusingen he studied See also:law at See also:Jena and See also:Erfurt. In Erfurt he became acquainted with See also:Wieland and through him with " See also:Father" See also:Gleim who in 1772 procured him the See also:post of See also:tutor in a See also:family at Quedlinburg. In 1774 he went to See also:Dusseldorf, where he assisted the poet J. G. See also:Jacobi to edit the periodical See also:Iris. Here the famous picture See also:gallery inspired him with a See also:passion for See also:art, to the study of which he devoted himself with so much zeal and insight that Jacobi furnished him with funds for a stay in See also:Italy, where he remained for three years (1780-1783). He returned to Dfi.sseldorf in 1784, and in 1786 was appointed reader to the elector See also:Frederick See also:Charles See also:Joseph, See also:archbishop of See also:Mainz, who subsequently made him his librarian at See also:Aschaffenburg, where he died on the 22nd of See also:June 1803. The See also:work upon which Heinse's fame mainly rests is Ardinghello and See also:die gluckseligen Inseln (1787), a novel which forms the See also:frame-work for the exposition of his views on art and See also:life, the See also:plot being laid in the Italy of the 16th See also:century. This and his other novels Laldion, See also:oder die eleusinischen Geheimnisse (1774) and See also:Hildegard von Hohenthal (1796) combine the See also:frank voluptuousness of Wieland with the See also:enthusiasm of the " See also:Sturm and Drang." Both as novelist and art critic, Heinse had considerable See also:influence on the romantic school. Heinse's See also:complete See also:works (Samtliche Schriften) were published by H. See also:Laube in to vols.

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Leipzig, 1838). A new edition by C. Schfiddekopf is in course of publication (Leipzig, 1901 sqq.). See H. Prohle, See also:Lessing, Wieland, Heinse (See also:Berlin, 1877), and J. Schober, Johann See also:Jacob Wilhelm Heinse, sein Leben and See also:seine Werke (Leipzig, 1882) ; also K. D. Jessen, Heinses Stellung zur bildenden Kunst (Berlin, 1903).

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