Editing Paul Heyse (section)

===Munich (1854–1914)===
Emanuel Geibel persuaded the King of Bavaria, [[Maximilian II of Bavaria|Maximilian II]], to grant Heyse a titular professorship in Munich. Heyse was thus appointed professor of Romance philology, although he never taught at that city's university. After his marriage on 15 May to Margarete Kugler he arrived in Munich on 25 May 1854. At his first audience with the King, Heyse presented his verse tales, ''Hermen'', and began a productive life as one of the ''Nordlichtern'' ("northern lights": Geibel, Heyse and Riehl) and establishing another literary society, ''Die Krokodile'', which included [[Felix Dahn]], [[Wilhelm Hertz]], [[Hermann Lingg]], [[Franz von Kobell]], the cultural historian [[Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl]], [[Friedrich Bodenstedt]], and the travel writer and art patron [[Adolf Friedrich von Schack]]. In December Heyse began a long correspondence with [[Eduard Mörike]].

On 22 August 1855, Heyse's first son, Franz, was born. Heyse had four children by his first marriage: Franz (1855–1919), Julie or Lulu (Frau Baumgarten, 1857–1928), Ernst (1859–1871) and Clara (Frau Layriz, 1861–1931). In 1859, obligations to the Kugler family led Heyse to take up a position as editor of the ''Literaturblatt zum deutschen Kunstblatt'', and he declined a tempting offer from the Grand Duke Carl Alexander von Weimar which would have involved moving to [[Thuringia]].

On 30 September 1862, his wife Margarete died in [[Meran]] of a lung illness. He completed the historical drama, ''Ludwig der Bayer'' – a Bavarian period piece which Maximilian II had long been eager to see – but its theatrical production was a failure. Nevertheless, Heyse worked throughout the 1860s on new plays, eventually achieving his greatest success with ''Kolberg'' (1865).

He married Anna Schubart in 1867. Over the next three decades, Heyse continued to write prolifically. Despite a number of bereavements his life was uneventful, and his fame grew steadily until he was a world-famous figure. He was a very early opponent of [[Naturalism (literature)|naturalism]], making critical references to it in print long before its influence could be felt in Germany. Younger critics who favoured naturalism made attacks on his writings, to which he replied in ''Merlin'' (1892): but their influence on the public was negligible. He was dubbed ''Dichterfürst'', prince of poetry, and he worked tirelessly to promote international understanding within Europe. He was elected an International Member of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1895.<ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Paul+J.+L.+Heyse&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2024-03-15 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> In 1900, he was named an honorary citizen of Munich, and several special publications honoured his 70th birthday; and in 1910, he was made a member of the nobility, before being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on 10 December. He could not attend the ceremony, and was represented in Sweden by Count von Pückler.

His last published works were ''Letzten Novellen'' and ''Italienischen Volksmärchen'' (1914). He died on 2 April 1914, several months before the outbreak of [[World War I]], and was buried in the old section of the Waldfriedhof (Nr. 43-W-27).

A street and tunnel in Munich, "Paul-Heyse Strasse" and "Paul-Heyse-Unterführung" are named after him as well as “Heysestrasse” in Hamburg Bergedorf.