HEYSE, PAUL (1830—). A distinguished German author, the son of Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Wyse. He was born in Berlin, and educated there and at Bonn. A classical training was ripened by travel. dnring which he pursued in the libraries of Switzerland and Italy the phil ological researches. a taste for which was in herited. Even earlier, however, he had made his first dramatic essay on a subject which the romantic revival had made very popular. Fran tin Rimini (1850). A little later appeared Lis epics, Die Briider (Berlin, 1852) and Utica (Berlin, 1851), which. when they were repub lished in 1854. made him so conspicuous that King Maximilian of Bavaria invited him to make 'Munich his home. Here he resided for many years with frequent visits to Italy, whose culture influenced all his writing deeply. In later life he spent most of his time in Italy on the banks of Lake Garda. The soot of Ileyse's many and varied productions has made him a dominant figure among German men of letters. Ilk prose fief ion has been chiefly in the shape of short stories, for which he came to hold a high position in German letters. These tales are models of their kind. masterpieces in minia ture. cameos in which every line leaves an im pression. The hest collection of them is Das Buch der Frcundsch«ft (1883) ; the most fa mous single example is L'Arrabbiata. He also produced a few longer novels, tinged with radical thought on soeial and religious questions, espe cially: Kinder der Welt (1873) ; lin Paradiese (1875) ; and ['cher allen Giplela (1895), pessimistic in tendency, but fresh in style and gracefully light in movement. A large
number of lyric and epic poems testify to a ripe culture, a %varin imagination, and a suavity 01 expression which at times sacrifices strength to sweetness. The best-known of the longer poems is the epic Thekla (1858). In his drama; he maintained a high level, although he has not in any of them attained the highest dra matic rank. Die Sabinerinnen (1859). Ludwig der Buyer( 1862 ) , and Hans Lange( 1866 ) are note worthy among his earlier plays: and in the clos ing years of the century he produced some strik ing dramas, such as Das rcrsehleierte Bild con Sills. Der Heilige, and Jlaria con Maydala, the last of which had a pronounced American suc cess in 1902. At the same time be studied Ital ian literature and published a number of trans lations from the Italian. His Complete Works were first published in 1371. but large additions have since brought the number up to some forty volumes. His reminiscences, Jugenderinnerungen and Bekenntnisse, appeared in 1900. Consult: Brandes, Modernc Geister (Frankfort, 1887) ; Kraus, Paul Buses Not:ellen und Romane (ib., 1888).