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In this well-written paper the author continues his work [J. Lie Theory 10, 53-80 (2000; Zbl 1041.17009)] in classifying real simple Lie algebras \(g\) by a method based on an observation of A. Koranyi that there is an inner product on the nilpotent subalgebra \(n\) of \(g\) which satisfies the compatibility conditions with the Lie product of \(n\) characteristic of the generalized Heisenberg algebras introduced by A. Kaplan in 1980. In Section 1, the author gives some general results on real simple Lie algebras and generalized Heisenberg algebras. In Section 2, the subalgebra \(m\) is described with its action on the root spaces, and the author obtains a new proof of the \(J^2\)-condition. In Section 3 and Section 4 the author provides a uniform construction of real rank one simple Lie algebras starting from a representation of a Clifford algebra. In Section 5, the author shows that \(m\) coincides with the algebra of skew symmetric derivations of \(n\). In Appendix 1, the author classifies generalized Heisenberg algebras with the \(J^2\)-property using Clifford algebras, a path different from the one pursued by Koranyi et al. in classifying real rank one simple Lie algebras. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0989.00033].