| name |
|
textual
passages |
|
| ****
(see Halle) |
|
|
| Abraham |
biblical
patriarch |
Cap.
XXV, St. 22 |
| Alighieri,
Dante (1265-1321) |
medieval
Italian poet |
Cap.
XXVII, St. 21-22 |
| Amphitryon
|
Greek
mythological figure |
Cap.
XXIII, St. 6 |
| Antaeus |
Greek
mythological figure |
Cap.
I, St. 19 |
| Aristophanes
(c. 450-c. 385 BCE) |
Classical
Greek playwright |
Cap
XXVII, St. 6-9, 10-13 |
| Arminius
(see Hermann) |
|
|
| Atalanta |
Greek
mythological figure |
Cap.
VIII. St. 4 |
| Basilea |
character
in play by Aristophanes |
Cap
XXVII, St. 7 |
| Barbarossa
(see Frederick I) |
|
|
| Becker,
Nikolaus (1809-1845) |
German
nationalist poet |
Cap
V |
| Bi(e)ber,
Georg Ehlert (1761-1845) |
owner
of Hamburg insurance company |
Cap
XXII, St. 6 |
| Birch-Pfeiffer,
Charlotte (1800-1868) |
German
popular dramatist |
Cap
XI |
| Bonaparte,
Napoleon (see Napoleon) |
|
|
| Campe,
Julius (1792-1867) |
Heine's
principal publisher |
Cap.
XXII, 13. XXIII, St. 2-9 |
| Canova,
Antonio (1757-1822) |
Italian
neoclassical sculptor |
Cap.
XXIII, St. 5 |
| Carolus
Magnus (see Charlemagne) |
|
|
| censor
(see Hoffmann) |
|
|
| Charlemagne
(742-814) |
early
medieval Germanic emperor |
Cap.
III, St. 1-2; XXVI, St. 3 |
| Charles
V (1500-1558) |
Holy
Roman Emperor |
Cap.
XVII, St. 8 |
| Chaufepié,
Hermann de (1801-1856) |
Hamburg
physician |
Cap.
XIII, St. 3 |
|
Chézy, Wilhelmine von (1783-1856) |
German
author, daughter of Karoline von Klencke,
granddaughter of Anna Luise Karsch |
Cap XVI, St. 7 |
|
Cornelius, Peter von (1783-1867) |
German
Romantic painter |
Cap.
XI, _ |
| Cornet,
Julius (1794-1860) |
Hamburg
theater director |
Cap
XXII, St. 12 |
| Dante
(see Alighieri) (1265-1321) |
medieval
Italian poet |
Cap.
XXVII |
| Danaïds |
Greek
mythological figures |
Cap.
XIII, St. 3 |
| Danton,
Georges Jacques (1759-1794) |
French
Revolutionary leader |
|
| Du
Barry, Marie Jeanne Countess (1743-1793) |
mistress
of Louis XV |
Cap.
XVI, St. 4, 8, 10 |
| Dunkelmänner
(see Viri Obscuri) |
|
|
| Eliezer |
biblical
figure: servant of Abraham |
Cap.
XXV, St. 22 |
| Ernest
Augustus (1771-1851) |
King
of Hannover |
Cap.
XIX, St. 6-12 |
| Fichte,
Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814) |
German
idealist philosopher |
Cap.
V, St. 17 |
| Father
Rhine |
mythological
embodiment of the river |
Cap.
V |
| Flaccus
Horatius (see Horace) |
|
|
| Fouqué,
Friedrich Baron de la Motte (1777-1843) |
German
Romantic poet |
Cap.
III, St. 11 |
| Frederick
I ("Barbarossa") (1121-1190) |
medieval
German emperor |
Cap.
XIV (section 1 2 3), XV (section 1 2), XVI (section 1 2 3),
XVII |
| Frederick
II ("the Great") (1712-1786) |
Prussian
king |
Cap.
XXVI, St. 3 |
| Frederick
William IV (1795-1861) |
Prussian
king |
Cap.
III, St. 10, 14; IV, St. 15; XXI, St. 13; XXVII, St. 10-22 |
| Freiligrath,
Ferdinand (1810-1876) |
German
political poet |
Cap.
XI, St. 7; XXV, St. 16 |
| Friedrich
(rulers)(see Frederick) |
|
|
| Fuchs
(Fucks), Friedrich August (1812-1856) |
independent
scholar in Hamburg |
Cap.
XXIII, St. 5 |
| the
giant (see Antaeus) |
|
|
| God/Father/Lord
(see also Jehovah, Jesus) |
|
Cap.
XXII, St. 18, XXIII, St. 9, 10-11 |
| Graces |
Greek
mythological figures |
Cap.
XXVII, St. 5 |
| Gudel |
Hamburg prostitute |
Cap.
XXII, St. 4 |
| Grandfather
and Hamburg wife (see Heymann
and Mathe Eva Heine) |
|
|
| Guillotin,
Joseph-Ignace (1738-1814) |
physician
associated with the decapitation machine of the French Revolution |
Cap.
XVI, St. 8-15 |
| Gutzkow,
Karl (1811-1878) |
German
political poet |
|
| Halle,
Adolf (1798-1866) (****) |
son-in-law
of Salomon Heine |
Cap.
XXII, St. 6 |
| Hamburg
wife of grandfather (see
Mathe Eva and Heymann
Heine) |
|
|
| Harris
(Harrys), George (1780-1838) |
Paganini's
manager |
Cap.
VII, St. |
| Hammonia |
mythological
embodiment of Hamburg |
Cap
XXIII, St. 15-29; XXIV-XXVI; XXVII, St. 1 |
| Hegel,
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831) |
German
idealist philosopher |
Cap.
V, St. 17; XXIII, St. 5 |
| Heine,
Betty, née van Geldern (1771-1859) |
Heine's
mother |
Cap.
XX; XXIV, St. 13; Addendum, St. 7 |
| Heine,
Charlotte, m. Embden (1800-99) |
Heine's
sister |
Cap.
XXIV, St. 13 |
| Heine,
Heymann (d. 1780) |
Heine's
paternal grandfather |
Cap.
XIX, St. 3 |
| Heine,
Mathe Eva, née Popert (d. 1799) |
Heine's
paternal grandmother |
Cap.
XIX, St. 3 |
| Heine,
Mathilde Creszenzia, née Mirat (1815-1883) |
Heine's
wife |
Cap
XVIII, St. 10; Addendum, St. 8 |
| Heine,
Salomon (1767-1844) |
Heine's
uncle, Hamburg banker |
|
| Helen
of Troy |
Greek
mythological figure |
Cap.
XXII, St. 14 |
| Hengstenberg,
Ernst Wilhelm (1802-1869) |
German
theologian |
Cap.
V, St. 18 |
| Hermann
the Cherusker (fl. c. 17-21 C.E.) |
Germanic
tribal leader who defeated the Romans |
Cap.
XI |
| Hoffmann,
Friedrich Ludwig (1790-1871) |
Heine's
censor in Hamburg |
Cap.
XXII, St. 8; XXVI, St. 28 |
| Hoffmann
von Fallersleben, August Heinrich (1798-1874) |
German
political poet |
Cap.
II, St. 7 |
| Hoogstraten
(Hoogstraaten), Jakob von (1460-1527) |
Dominican
inquisitor in Cologne |
Cap.
IV, St. 7 |
| Horace:
Quintus Flaccus Horatius (65-8 BCE) |
Roman
classical poet |
Cap.
XI, St. 7 |
| Hutten,
Ulrich von (1488-1523) |
Imperial
knight, humanist, opponent of Hoogstraten
and the viri obscuri |
Cap.
IV, St. 6 |
| Jahn,
Friedrich Ludwig ("Gymnastics Father") (1778-1852) |
early
German nationalist |
Cap.
|
| Jehovah |
Christian
rendering of unpronounceable and unspeakable Hebrew name of
God |
Cap.
XXII, St. 10, XXIII, St. 5 |
| Jesus |
|
Cap.
XIII, 4-10, XXIV, St. 3; XXVII, St. 14-22 |
| Joanna
of Montfaucon (-) |
medieval
aristocrat, protagonist of play by Kotzebue |
Cap.
III, St. 11 |
| John
the Baptist |
|
Cap.
XXII, St. 5 |
| John,
Father (see Jahn) |
|
|
| Jove |
Roman
mythological figure |
Cap.
XXVII, St. 15 |
| Kamönen
(see Muses) |
|
|
| Kant,
Immanuel (1724-1804) |
German
idealist philosopher |
Cap.
V., St. 17 |
| Karl
(rulers) (see Charles) |
|
|
| Karschin:
Karsch, Anna Luise (1722-1791) |
German
author, mother of Karoline von Klencke,
grandmother of Wilhelmine von Chézy |
Cap.
XVI, St. 4, 7 |
| Klen[c]ke,
Karoline von (1754-1802) |
German
author, daughter of Anna Luise Karsch,
mother of Wilhelmine v. Chézy |
Cap.
XVI, St. 7 |
| Klopstock,
Friedrich Gottlieb (1724-1803) |
German
canonical poet |
Cap.
XXIV, St. 3-4 |
| Kolb,
Gustav (1798-1865) |
German
newspaper editor |
Cap.
XII, St. 14 |
| Körner,
Theodor (1791-1813) |
German
nationalist poet of the Napoleonic Wars |
Cap.
III, St. 5 |
| Laurence
(see Lorenz) |
|
|
| Liszt,
Franz (1811-1886) |
virtuouso
pianist and composer |
Cap.
IV, St. 15 |
| Lorenz |
delicatessen
in Hamburg |
Cap.
XXIII, St. 1 |
| Louis
XV (1710-1774) |
French
King |
Cap.
XVI, St. 4, 8-9 |
| Louis
XVI (1754-1793) |
French
King |
Cap.
XVI, St. 9-15, 16-17 |
| Ludwig
(rulers) (see Louis) |
|
|
| Luther,
Martin (1483-1546) |
leader
of the Protestant Reformation |
Cap.
IV, St. 12 |
| Madonna |
|
Cap.
XXIII, St. 6 |
| Marie
Antoinette (1755-1793) |
French
Queen |
Cap.
XVI, St. 9-15, 16-17 |
| Massmann,
Hans Ferdinand (1797-1874) |
German
scholar and nationalist |
Cap.
XI, St. 8, 15 |
| Mayer,
Charles (Karl) (1786-1870) |
minor
German poet of the "Swabian School" |
Cap.
III, St. 1-2 |
| Mendelssohn,
Moses (1729-1786) |
Jewish
reformer, Enlightenment philosopher |
Cap.
XVI, St. 4-5 |
| Mendelssohn,
"Rebecca" (actually Fromet) (1738-1812) |
wife
of Moses Mendelssohn |
Cap.
XVI, St. 5 |
| Mendelssohn,
Abraham (1776-1835) |
son
of Moses and Rebecca, father of Felix |
Cap.
XVI, St. 5-6 |
| Mendelssohn,
Leah, née Bartholdy (1777-1842) |
wife
of Abraham, mother of Felix |
Cap.
XVI, St. 6 |
| Mendelssohn-Bartholdy,
Felix (1809-1847) |
conductor
and composer, grandson of Moses |
Cap.
XVI, St. 6 |
| Menzel,
Wolfgang (1798-1873) (see also Swabian
School) |
Heine's
nemesis: influential conservative literary historian and critic |
Cap.
IV, St. 7; XXIV, St. 21 |
| Mentor |
Greek
mythological figure from the Odyssey |
Cap.
XXV, St. 4 |
| Meyer,
A. J. (1788-1859) |
Hamburg
journalist |
Cap.
XXII, St. 12 |
| Michaelis,
Eduard (1771-1847) |
Hamburg
businessman and philanthropist |
Cap.
XXII, St. 5 |
| Muses |
Greek
mythological figures |
Cap.
XXVII, St. 6 |
| Musset,
Alfred de (1810-1857) |
French
Romantic author |
Cap.
V, St. 13, 19 |
| Napoleon
I (1769-1821) |
French
emperor |
Cap.
VI, St. 2; VIII, St.8, 12-17 |
| Neander,
August (1789-1850) |
Professor
of theology in Berlin |
Cap.
XI, St. 5 |
| Nero
(36-68) |
Roman
emperor |
Cap.
XI, St. 10 |
| Odysseus
(see Ulysses) |
|
|
| Paganini,
Niccolò (1784-1840) |
violin
virtuoso, composer |
Cap.
VI, St. 1 |
| Paisteteros |
figure
in play by Aristophanes |
Cap.
XXVII, St. 7 |
| Philistines |
Hebrew
Bible: Mediterranean people become synonymous with lack of culture |
Cap.
V, St. 18 |
| Polyphemus |
Greek
mythological figure from the Odyssey |
Cap.
XVIII, St. 4-5 |
| Raumer,
Friedrich von (1781-1873) |
Conservative
historian and dramatist |
Cap.
XI, St. 7 |
| Robespierre,
Maximilien (1758-1794) |
French
Revolutionary leader |
Cap.
|
| Rothschild |
famous
Jewish banking family |
Cap.
XXVI St. 5 |
| Saint-Just,
Louis Antoine de (1767-1794) |
French
Revolutionary leader |
Cap.
XXVI, St. 14 |
| Schelling,
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph (1775-1854) |
German
idealist philosopher |
Cap.
XI, St. 11 |
| Sarras |
dog
belonging to Julius Campe |
Cap.
XXII, St. 13 |
| Seneca,
Lucius Annaeus (c. 4 BCE-65) |
Roman
Stoic philosopher |
Cap.
XI, St. 11 |
| Sisyphus |
Greek
mythological figure |
Cap.
XIII, St. 3 |
| Siren |
Greek
mythological figure from the Odyssey |
Cap.
XXII, St. 4 |
| Socrates
(c. 469-399 BCE) |
Classical
Greek philosopher |
Cap.
VI, St. 2 |
| My
stationer (see Michaelis) |
|
|
| Swabians;
Swabian School (see also Mayer;
Menzel) |
Southwestern
Germans, derided by Heine as provincial Philistines |
Cap.
XI, St., 4; XXIV, St. 21 |
| Tacitus,
Publius Cornelius (c. 55-120) |
Classical
Roman historian |
Cap.
XI, St. 1 |
| Three
Kings |
figures
from New Testament |
Cap.
IV, St. 19-22, VII, St.18-29 |
| Tieck,
Ludwig (1773-1853) |
German
Romantic poet |
Cap.
III, St. 11 |
| Uhland,
Ludwig (1787-1862) |
German
Romantic poet |
Cap.
III, St. 11 |
| Ulysses |
Roman
name of Greek mythological figure from the Odyssey |
Cap.
XVIII, St. 4-5 |
| Varus,
Publius Quintilius (c. 46 BCE-9 CE) |
Roman
general defeated by Hermann the Cherusker |
Cap.
XI, St. 1 |
| Viri
obscuri |
religious
obscurantists of the 15th century: led by Hoogstraten,
opposed by Hutten |
Cap.
IV, St. 6 |
| Voltaire,
François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) |
French
Enlighenment philosopher |
Cap.
V, St. 18 |
| Wille,
François (1811-1896) |
Hamburg
journalist |
Cap.
XXIII, St. 4 |
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