Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse (15 October 1797 inOldenburg – 25 November 1855 inBerlin) was aGermanphilologist, son ofJohann Christian August Heyse, father of thenovelistPaul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, born atOldenburg.
He received his early education at gymnasiums in Oldenburg andNordhausen, and from 1812 to 1815, studied at a private institute inVevey,Switzerland. After briefly serving as a tutor to the youngest son ofWilhelm von Humboldt, he enrolled in classes at theUniversity of Berlin (1816). Here, he studiedphilology underPhilipp August Böckh. From 1819 to 1827, he was a private tutor to the family of bankerAbraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (includingFelix Mendelssohn).[1]
In 1827 he received his habilitation at the University of Berlin, where in 1829, he became an associate professor. At Berlin, he lectured onGreek andLatin literature, thephilosophy of language and generallinguistics.[1]
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).[2] 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.[1][3] Among his original writings was "System der Sprachwissenschaft", a book edited and published in 1856 byHeymann Steinthal.[4]
