Famous People with Name Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine: was a journalist, essayist, and one of the most significant German romantic poets. He is remembered chiefly for selections of his lyric poetry, many of which were set to music in the form of lieder (art songs) by German composers.

Karsten Heine            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karsten Heine: is a German football manager and a former player currently in charge of Hertha BSC II.

Heinrich Eduard Heine            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Heinrich Eduard Heine: was a German mathematician. Heine was born in Berlin, and became known for results on special functions and in real analysis. In particular, he authored an important treatise on spherical harmonics and Legendre functions (Handbuch der Kugelfunctionen). He

Bernhard Heine            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Bernhard Heine: was a German physician, bone specialist and the inventor of the osteotome, a medical tool for cutting bones. At the age of ten (according to other references, thirteen) years he was apprenticed to his uncle Johann Georg Heine in Würzburg as an orthopaedic mechanic. Without any enrolment he later attended lectures in medicine at the University of Würzburg. After a number of journeys he took over his own department in his uncle's orthopaedic institute.

Jakob Heine            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Jakob Heine: was a German orthopaedist. He is most famous for his 1840 study into poliomyelitis, which was the first medical report on the disease, and the first time the illness was recognised as a clinical entity. Poliomyelitis is often known as Heine-Medin disease, after the work of Heine and Karl Oskar Medin.