He received his early education at gymnasiums in Oldenburg and
Nordhausen, and from 1812 to 1815, studied at a private institute in
Vevey,
Switzerland. After briefly serving as a tutor to the youngest son of
Wilhelm von Humboldt, he enrolled in classes at the
University of Berlin (1816). Here, he studied
philology under
August Böckh. From 1819 to 1827, he was a private tutor to the family of banker
Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy (including
Felix Mendelssohn). In 1827 he received his habilitation at the University of Berlin, where in 1829, he became an associate professor. At Berlin, he lectured on
Greek and
Latin literature, the
philosophy of language and general
linguistics. 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. Among his original writings was "
System der Sprachwissenschaft", a book edited and published in 1856 by
Heymann Steinthal. == References ==