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| | Heinrich Heine |
 | | Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was born in Düsseldorf, the son of a Jewish tradesman. |
 | | Heine studied law at the universities of Bonn, Berlin and Göttingen, gaining his degree in 1825, but was always more interested in literature. |
 | | Heine was a perplexing man, and the poetry combines surface lightness with probing thought, faith with cynicism, hope for a better world with doubts that the arts would achieve very much. |
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