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Monday, February 25, 2019

Where To See Statues And Memorials to Poet Heinrich Heine and the Lorelei


Grave of Heinrich Heine, in Montmartre Cemetery. Photo by Jessica Kemper in article on Heine in Wikipedia.


France



Heinrich Heine spent his later years in France and died and was buried in Paris. He lived from 1797-1856. His grave is is the
Montmartre Cemetery.

A statue of him is in Toulon.

Germany
Heine was born in Germany and wrote in German. I saw a reclining statue of Heine in the northern port of Hamburg.

Israel
Heine caused as much controversy in Israel as in Germany. A street was named after him. 



UK
Portrait of Heinrich Heine in the National Portrait Gallery, London, England.

USA
A statue to Heine is in a park dedicated to  Joyce Wilmer, another poet, who wrote the poem about God creating trees.

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