Gustav Heine von Geldern

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Gustav Heine, Freiherr von Geldern (June 18, 1812, Düsseldorf - November 15, 1886, Vienna) was a German-Austrian publicist.

He was the brother of Heinrich Heine. On completing his preliminary education at Hamburg he studied at the universities of Halle and Göttingen. He first engaged in agriculture, then in business, and then entered the Austrian army, rising to the rank of first lieutenant. In 1847 he founded in Vienna "Das Fremdenblatt", a periodical that became the official organ of the Austrian Foreign Office. In 1867 the Order of the Iron Crown of the third class was conferred upon Heine; and soon afterward he was knighted. In 1870 he was elevated to the rank of "Freiherr", with the cognomen "Geldern", his mother's family name.

One of his sons, Maximilian Heine, writes under the name of "Heldern", and is the author of the libretto to the operetta "Mirolan".

[edit] See also

• Heine, Geldern
• Maximilian Heine
• Robert von Heine-Geldern

[edit] Bibliography (of Jewish Encyclopedia)

• Fremdenblatt, November 16, 1886;
• Embden, Heinrich Heine's Familienleben, p. 65, Hamburg, 1892;
• Eisenberg, Das Geistige Wien, p. 197.S. B.

This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain. ([1])

By Isidore Singer & Bernhard Templer