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PAUL JOHANN LUDWIG HEYSE (183o– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 438 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PAUL JOHANN See also:LUDWIG See also:HEYSE (183o– )  , See also:German novelist, dramatist and poet, was See also:born at See also:Berlin on the 15th of See also:March 183o, the son of the distinguished philologist Karl Wilhelm See also:Ludwig See also:Heyse (1797-1855) . After attending the See also:Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin, he went, in 1849, to See also:Bonn University as a student of the See also:Romance See also:languages, and in 1852 took his See also:doctor's degree . He had already given See also:proof of See also:great See also:literary ability in the See also:production in 185o of Der Jungbrunnen, Mdrchen eines fahrenden Schiiders and of the tragedy Francesca von See also:Rimini, when after a See also:year's stay in See also:Italy, he was summoned, See also:early in 1854, by See also:King See also:Maximilian II. to See also:Munich, where he subsequently lived . Here he turned his See also:attention to novel-See also:writing . He published at Munich in 1855 four See also:short stories in one-See also:volume, one of which, at least, L'Arrabbiata, was a See also:master-piece ,of its See also:kind . These were the precursors of a See also:series of similar volumes, necessarily unequal at times, but on the whole constituting such a See also:mass of highly complex See also:miniature fiction as seldom before had proceeded from the See also:pen of a single writer . Heyse See also:works in the spirit of a sculptor; he seizes upon some picturesque incident or situation, and See also:chisels and polishes until all the effect which it is capable of producing has been extracted from it . The success of the See also:story usually depends upon the theme, for the artist's skill is generally much the same, and the. situation usually leaves a deeper impression than the characters., Heyse is also the author of several novels on a larger See also:scale, all of which have gained success and provoked abundant discussion . The more important are Kinder der Welt (1873), lm Paradiese (1875)—the one dealing with the religious and social, problems of its See also:time, the other with artist-See also:life in Munich—Der See also:Roman der Stiftsdame (1888), and See also:Merlin (1892), a novel directed against the See also:modern realistic See also:movement of which Heyse had been the leading opponent in See also:Germany . He has also been a prolific dramatist, but his plays are deficient in theatrical qualities and are rarely seen on the See also:stage . Among the best of them are See also:Die Sabinerinnen (1859); Hans See also:Lange (1866), . See also:Kolberg (1868), Die Weisheit Salomos (1886), and Maria von: See also:Magdala (1903) .

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translations by him of See also:Leopardi, See also:Giusti, and other See also:Italian poets (Italienische Dickler seit der Mitte See also:des i8ten Jahrhundert) (4 vols., 1889-189o) . I-feyse's Gesammelte Werke appeared in 29 vols . (1897-z899); there is also a popular edition of his Romane (8 vols., 1902-1904) and Novellen (10 vols., 1904-1906) . See his autobiography, Jugenderinnerungen and Bekenntnisse (1901) also O . Kraus, Paid Heyses Novellen and Romane (1888) ; E . Petzct, See also:Paul Heyse ah Dramatiker (1904), and the essays by T . Ziegler (in Studien smd Studienkopfe, 1877), and G . See also:Brandes (in Moderne Geister, 1887) .

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