Gustav Heine, after 1870 Gustav

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Heine von Geldern (18 June 1812, in

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– 15 November 1886, in

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), was a German-

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journalist and press publisher. He was born into a Jewish family in Düsseldorf; one of his brothers was Heinrich Heine. On completing his preliminary education at

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he studied at the universities of Halle and

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. He first engaged in agriculture, then in business, and then entered the

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, rising to the rank of

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. In 1847 he founded in Vienna ''Das Fremdenblatt'', a

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that became the official organ of the Austrian Foreign Office. In 1867 he was made a member of the

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3rd class and, as provided by the statutes of this order, made a hereditary knight within the Austrian Nobility. In 1870 he was elevated to the rank of

, with the

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Geldern, his mother's family name. He was also decorated with the

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of the second class.

Marriage and family

He was married to Emilie Kaan von Albest (1824–1859) with whom he had five children. After his wife's death he was briefly engaged to Countess Bertha Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, who later became first woman to be awarded the

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, but she broke off an engagement before the marriage occurred. One of his sons, Maximilian (Max) Freiherr von Heine-Geldern (1849–1929), wrote under the name "Heldern", and was the author of the libretto to the operetta ''Mirolan''. Through his daughter Maria von Heine-Geldern (1848–1911) he was maternal grandfather of Count Gustav Heinrich Maria Sizzo de Noris.

References

* 1812 births 1886 deaths Austrian soldiers Barons of Austria Barons of Germany 19th-century German Jews People from Düsseldorf Heinrich Heine {{Europe-noble-stub