Editing Paul Heyse (section)

===Berlin (1830–54)===
Paul Heyse was born on 15 March 1830 in Heiliggeiststraße, [[Berlin]]. His father, the distinguished philologist [[Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse]],<ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Heyse, Paul Johann Ludwig |volume=13 |page=438}}</ref> was a professor at the [[University of Berlin]] who had been the tutor of both [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]]'s youngest son (during 1815–17) and [[Felix Mendelssohn]] (during 1819–27).  His paternal grandfather [[Johann Christian August Heyse]] (21 April 1764, Nordhausen – 27 July 1829, Magdeburg), was a famous German grammarian and lexicographer. Paul Heyse's mother was Jewish.<ref>Julius Petersen: Die Wissenschaft von der Dichtung, Berlin 1944, p 291.</ref>

Heyse attended the renamed Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium until 1847. He was later remembered as a model student. His family connections gained him early entry to the artistic circles of Berlin, where he made the acquaintance of [[Emanuel Geibel]], a man fifteen years his elder who was to become his literary mentor and lifelong friend, and who introduced him to his future father-in-law, the art historian and writer [[Franz Theodor Kugler|Franz Kugler]].

After leaving school Heyse began studying classical philology. He met [[Jacob Burckhardt]], [[Adolph Menzel]], [[Theodor Fontane]] and [[Theodor Storm]], and in 1849 joined the ''[[Tunnel über der Spree]]'' literary group. ''Frühlingsanfang 1848'', the first of Heyse's poems to see print, expressed his enthusiasm for the recent Revolution. After a brief excursion to see the student militias he returned home without joining them, apparently out of consideration for the concerns of his parents and friends.

Having studied for two years at the [[University of Berlin]] he left for [[Bonn]] in April 1849 in order to study art history and Romance languages. In 1850, he finally resolved on a career as a writer and began a dissertation under the supervision of [[Friedrich Diez]], a pioneer of Romance philology in Germany; but when it was discovered he was conducting an affair with the wife of one of his professors he was sent back to Berlin. Heyse's first book, ''Der Jungbrunnen'' (a collection of tales and poetry) was published anonymously by his father that same year as was his tragedy ''Francesca von Rimini''. About the same time, Heyse received from the publisher [[Alexander Duncker]] a manuscript by the then-unknown [[Theodor Storm]]. Heyse's enthusiastic critique of ''Sommergeschichten und Lieder'' laid the foundations of their future friendship.
[[File:Porträt des Paul Heyse (1853) - Adolf Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (Museum Georg Schäfer).jpg|thumb|200px|left|Portrait of Paul Heyse, by [[Adolph von Menzel]]]]

In 1851, Heyse won a contest held by the members of the "Tunnel" for the ballad ''Das Tal von Espigno'', and his first short story, "Marion" (1852), was similarly honoured. It was followed in 1852 by the ''[[Spanisches Liederbuch]]'', a collection of translations of poems and folk songs by Geibel and Heyse which was to be a favourite with composers, including [[Robert Schumann]] (Opp. 74 & 138), [[Adolf Jensen]] (Op. 21) and [[Hugo Wolf]] ([[Lieder]] collection ''[[Spanisches Liederbuch (Wolf)|Spanisches Liederbuch]]'', 1891). Wolf also set poems from Heyse's collection {{Lang|de|[[Italienisches Liederbuch]]}} of 1860 (Lieder collection ''[[Italienisches Liederbuch (Wolf)|Italienisches Liederbuch]]'' 1892{{ndash}}96). Throughout his career Heyse worked as a translator, above all of Italian literature ([[Leopardi]], [[Giuseppe Giusti|Giusti]]).

Several members of the "Tunnel" began to find its formalities and public nature distasteful, and a smaller circle, the ''[[Rütli (literary group)|Rütli]]'', was formed in December 1852: it included Kugler, [[Bernhard von Lepel|Lepel]], Fontane, Storm, and Heyse. In May 1852, Heyse was awarded a doctorate<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/891/000103582/|title = Paul von Heyse}}</ref> for his work on the [[troubadour]]s, and a Prussian scholarship allowed him to depart for Italy to look for old Provençal manuscripts. He made friends with [[Arnold Böcklin]] and [[Joseph Victor von Scheffel]] but was banned from the Vatican library after being discovered copying passages from unpublished manuscripts. He returned to Germany in 1853, where, with the Italian landscape still fresh in his mind, he wrote the works which first made him famous: his most famous short story, "L'Arrabbiata"<ref name=EB1911/> ("The Fury", 1853, published in 1855); and the ''Lieder aus Sorrent'' ("Songs of Sorrento", 1852/53). Much of his new writing appeared in the ''Argo'', the yearbook of the ''Rütli'' writers.