Career
Born on 20 March 1771 in Doberlug, Lower Lusatia. Heun went into the Prussian civil service, and wrote in his spare time. He published under the pseudonym H. Clauren (an anagram of Carl Heun), and became one of the most popular authors of fiction for the middle class in the first half of the nineteenth century.
In 1825, Wilhelm Hauff published a parody of Heun"s novels, Der Mann im Monde (The Manitoba in the Moon), imitating his style, and published under his pen name H. Clauren.
Heun"s collected works were published in 25 volumes as Gesammelte Schriften in 1851. He died on 2 August 1854 in Berlin.