Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse (15 October 1797 in

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– 25 November 1855 in

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) was a

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, son of Johann Christian August Heyse, father of the

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Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (; 15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies, the '' Tunnel über der Spree'' in Berlin and ''Die Krokodile'' in Munich, he wrote n ...

, born at

. He received his early education at gymnasiums in Oldenburg and

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, and from 1812 to 1815, studied at a private institute in

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, Switzerland. After briefly serving as a tutor to the youngest son of

Wilhelm von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt (, also , ; ; 22 June 1767 – 8 April 1835) was a Prussian philosopher, linguist, government functionary, diplomat, and founder of the Humboldt University of Berlin, which was named afte ...

, he enrolled in classes at the

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(1816). Here, he studied

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under

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. From 1819 to 1827, he was a private tutor to the family of banker

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(including Felix Mendelssohn).ADB:Heyse, Karl
@ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie In 1827 he received his habilitation at the University of Berlin, where in 1829, he became an associate professor. At Berlin, he lectured on

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and

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, the

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and general

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. After his father's death (1829), he revised a number of the elder Heyse's works, including the fifth edition of "''Theoretisch-praktischer deutscher Grammatik''" with the title, "''Ausführliches Lehrbuch der deutschen Sprache''" (volume 1, 1838; volume 2, 1849). He also edited the tenth edition of his father's ''"Theoretisch-praktischer deutscher Schulgrammatik"'' (1832). The three-volume "''Handwörterbuch der deutschen Sprache''" (1833-1849), although prepared by the elder Heyse, was essentially his own work. Among his original writings was "''System der Sprachwissenschaft''", a book edited and published in 1856 by

Heymann Steinthal Heymann or Hermann Steinthal (16 May 1823 – 14 March 1899) was a German philologist and philosopher. He studied philology and philosophy at the University of Berlin, and was in 1850 appointed ''Privatdozent'' of philology and mythology at tha ...

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System der Sprachwissenschaft

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