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Which universities did Heinrich Heine attend?

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Portrait of German poet Heinrich Heine, circa 1827, seated with one arm resting on his knee and wearing a dark coat over a white shirt. — Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine, c. 1827.

Heinrich Heine attended the universities of Bonn, Berlin, and Göttingen. He studied at Göttingen on two separate occasions, ultimately earning a law degree there in 1825, though he devoted much of his time during these years to poetry, literature, and history rather than his legal studies.1