Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1895 — HONORING GERMAN GENIUS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HONORING GERMAN GENIUS.

New York Teutons Will Ereet a Monument to the Poet Heine. A handsome monument and fountain In honor of the German poet, Heinrich Heine, is to be erected in Central Park, New York, by the German societies of that city. It will be of Tyrolean marble and will stand fifty feet high. The center piece, a column, shows the medallion of Heine in life size, a figure of the Lorelei surmounts the pedestal and on either side are figures of

nymphs. The monument, which will cost §50,000, was originally offered to Heine's native city, Dusseldorf-on-tlie-Rhine, and later to the city of Mayencc, but both of these towns refused to accept It, knowing that the Crowned heads were not in favor of the poet's writings, because of his freedom of thought Heinrich Heine was a poetic genius, satirist and wit who was born in Dusseldorf, of Jewish parentage, In 17()9. At an early age he evinced a brilliancy of intellect which attracted attention in his native town and, after graduating from the Universities of Bonn and Gottingen, he took up literature and soon “Young Germany” was at his feet There was a reckless freedom of thought and hostility to monarchy expressed in his writings which won for him the admiration of the revolutionists and the antipathy of the royalists. For beauty and tenderness of expression his writings are unmatched in German literature except by the lyrics of Goethe. The revolution of the early 30’s threw Heine into such a violent fit of democracy that he was exiled and spent the remainder of his life in France. There he won high favor with the French Republicans. He died in 1856.

IX HONOR OF THE GERMAN POET HEINE.