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JOHANN See also:JAKOB WILHELM See also:HEINSE (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
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After attending the gymnasium at Schleusingen he studied See also:law at See also:Jena and See also:Erfurt
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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
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In 1774 he went to See also:Dusseldorf, where he assisted the poet J
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See also:Jacobi to edit the periodical See also:Iris
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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)
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He returned to Dfi.sseldorf in 1784, and in 1786 was appointed reader to the elector See also:Frederick See also: (See also: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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