On this day 169 years ago, on February 17, 1856 (January 12, 1856 lunar calendar), the famous German poet Heine died. The German poet Heine, like Heine, was born in Düsseldorf, Germany on December 13, 1797. Heine experienced the Napoleonic Wars as a child and teenager. After Napoleon's defeat in 1815, he worked in a bank. After 1819, he studied at the University of Bonn, the University of Göttingen, and the University of Berlin. While in Berlin, he met the Farnhagen von Enze and the writers Shamiso and Fouquet. The literary salon of the Enze couple's house was the literary center of Berlin. Under its influence, Heine's first collection of poems was published in Berlin in 1821. In 1823, "Tragedy - Lyric Interlude" was published. In January 1824, he returned to the University of Göttingen to study law, and continued to write poems, completing the Homecoming Collection. In 1825, he received a doctorate in law. The Homecoming Collection was updated and combined with the first part of the poems in "Travels to the Harz Mountains" and "Journey to the North Sea". It was compiled and published as "Travels" in 1826, which caused a strong response. In 1827, the second volume of "Travels" was published. After returning to Hamburg from a trip to England, his "Songbook" was published, including most of the poems published before this time, establishing Heine's status as an outstanding lyric poet. In 1829, the third volume of "Travels" was published. After that, Heine successively published articles and poems such as "The Present Situation in France", "On the Painters of France", "A Brief History of Modern German Literature", "Ludwig Bernard, Heinrich Heine's Death List", "Germany, a Winter's Fairy Tale" and other articles and poems. Completely paralyzed in May 1848, he persisted in writing with amazing perseverance, dictating the collection of poems "Romancero", which was published in 1851. Later, he also wrote some prose works. On February 17, 1856, Heine died in Paris. Heine's manuscript Heine and Marx's wife Heine listened to their wife read aloud during their illness