Heyne, Christian Gottlob, a German classical scholar, born at Chemnitz, son of a poor weaver, and reared all along almost on the verge of destitution; became eminent by his heroic devotion to scholarship, both as a translator and editor of classical works, his edition of “Virgil” the chief in the latter department; Carlyle almost ranks him among his heroes, and ascribes superlative merit to his book on Virgil (1729‒1812).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Heylin, Peter * Heyse, Paul Johann