Paul Heyse
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse was a distinguished German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies, the Tunnel ber der Spree in Berlin and Die Krokodile in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and about sixty dramas. The sum of Heyses many and varied productions made him a dominant figure among German men of letters. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910 as a tribute to the consummate artistry, permeated with idealism, which he has demonstrated during his long productive career as a lyric poet, dramatist, novelist and writer of worldrenowned short stories. Wirsen, one of the Nobel judges, said that Germany has not had a greater literary genius since Goethe. Heyse is the fifth oldest laureate in literature, after Doris Lessing, Theodor Mommsen, Alice Munro and Jaroslav Seifert.
Paul Heyse was born onMarch 1830 in Heiliggeiststrae, Berlin. His father, the distinguished philologist Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse, was a professor at the University of Berlin who had been the tutor of both Wilhelm von Humboldts youngest son and Felix Mendelssohn . His paternal grandfather Johann Christian August Heyse , was a famous German grammarian and lexicographer.
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