The event was condemned by the young poet Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) as ignorant and medieval. However, his famous pronouncement, ‘That was only a Prologue: where books are burned, in the end people will be burned as well’, referred to the burning of the Qur’an by the Spanish Inquisition during the conquest of Granada in 1499, not to the Wartburg event.
Oh wow! Surprising!
