12018-07-26T20:23:51-07:00Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78e310404plain2020-08-03T07:17:18-07:00Düsseldorf, GermanyDecember 13, 1797February 17, 1856162Paris, FranceIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was a poet and prose writer born in Düsseldorf, Germany, to assimilated Jewish parents. He authored the first example in German of a feuilleton, Briefe aus Berlin, the genre that had flourished in Paris since 1800. Thus, Heine is thought of as the “father of the feuilleton” in Germany.