HEYSE, PAUL JOHANN LUDWIG (183o )

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HEYSE, PAUL JOHANN LUDWIG (183o ) , German novelist, dramatist and poet, was born at Berlin on the 15th of

March

183o, the son of the distinguished philologist Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse (1797-1855). After attending the

Friedrich

FRIEDRICH, JOHANN (1836— )

Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin, he went, in 1849, to

Bonn

BONN

University as a student of the Romance languages, and in 1852 took his

doctor

DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

's degree. He had already given proof of

great

GREAT

literary ability in the production in 185o of Der Jungbrunnen, Mdrchen eines fahrenden Schiiders and of the tragedy Francesca von Rimini, when after a year's stay in Italy, he was summoned, early in 1854, by King

Maximilian

MAXIMILIAN
MAXIMILIAN (1832—1867)

II. to Munich, where he subsequently lived. Here he turned his attention to novel-writing. He published at Munich in 1855 four short stories in one-volume, one of which, at least, L'Arrabbiata, was a master-piece ,of its kind. These were the precursors of a

series

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

of similar volumes, necessarily unequal at times, but on the whole constituting such a mass of highly complex miniature fiction as seldom before had proceeded from the pen of a single writer. Heyse works in the spirit of a sculptor; he seizes upon some picturesque incident or situation, and

chisels

CHISELS

and polishes until all the effect which it is capable of producing has been extracted from it. The success of the 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 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 time, the other with artist-life in MunichDer Roman der Stiftsdame (1888), and Merlin (1892), a novel directed against the modern realistic

movement

MOVEMENT

of which Heyse had been the leading opponent in Germany. He has also been a prolific dramatist, but his plays are deficient in theatrical qualities and are rarely seen on the stage. Among the best of them are Die Sabinerinnen (1859); Hans Lange (1866),. Kolberg (1868), Die Weisheit Salomos (1886), and Maria von: Magdala (1903). There are masterly translations by him of Leopardi, Giusti, and other Italian poets (Italienische Dickler seit der Mitte 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, Paul Heyse ah Dramatiker (1904), and the essays by T. Ziegler (in Studien smd Studienkopfe, 1877), and G. Brandes (in Moderne Geister, 1887).

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