Heinrich Heine made use of these legends in his Nordseebilder, composed during a visit to Norderney in 1825.
The historian Lappenberg and Friedrich von Hagedorn were born in Hamburg; and not only Lessing, but Heine and Klopstock lived there for some time.
He succeeded in escaping and lived for a time in Strassburg, Paris - where for several months he was Heine's secretary - and Bordeaux.
Early in the 19th century he was associated with Gans Moser and Heine in an association which the last named called "Young Palestine."
About this time Dbllinger brought upon himself the animadversion of Heine, who was then editor of a Munich paper.