Memorial Stone Heinrich Heine

Memorial Stone Heinrich Heine Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet. He was born Harry Heine, but became known as Heinrich Heine as a writer. In 1825 he joined the Lutheran Church, but he did not develop a more intimate connection with the Christian faith until he lay paralyzed on his sickbed in Paris, where he had lived since 1831, at the end of his life. He is buried in the cemetery of Montmartre.

Heine belonged to the Romantic era and wrote many ironic and witty poems that still appeal to people today. He sometimes collaborated with his contemporary Karl Marx.

Famous is his statement "dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen" ("where one burns books, one eventually burns people"[1]) which serves as a prophetic foresight of what would later take place in Hitler's 'Third Reich'.

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