biography
| name: |
Heinse or Heintze, Johann Jakob Wilhelm
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pronunciation:
[hiynsuh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1746–1803)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Langewiesen-Thuringia, C Germany. In the early 1770s he was part of Gleim's Halberstadt circle, editing the periodical Iris. He is known for Ardinghello und die glücklichen Inseln (1787), a novel advocating a Rousseauesque artists' utopia of a life devoted to beauty and freedom and nurtured by nature and the senses, not conventional morality. Other works include the novel Hildegard von Hohenthal (1795–6) and translations from Petronius, Tasso, and Ariosto. |
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