German writer. He was born 14 September 1817 in Husum, Germany and died 4 July 1888 in Hanerau-Hademarschen, Germany.
Children with Constanze Esmarch: Hans, born 26 December 1849, died 5 December 1886; Ernst, born 30 January 1851; Karl, born 7 June 1853; Lisbeth, born 10 June 1855; Lucie, born 12 August 1860; Elsabe, born 24 January 1862; Gertrud, born 4 May 1865.
Daughter with Dorothea Jensen: Friederike, born 4 September 1868.
Back in those days there was still an unbroken stretch of heath that lay on the route of our excursions, all that was left of a heath that once had extended almost up to the town on the one side and almost to the little village on the other. Here the honeybees and white-gray bumblebees hummed over the fragrant blossoms of heather, and the beautiful gold-green beetles ran among the plants; here in the sweet clouds of the erica and the resinous bushes hovered butterflies that could be found nowhere else on this earth. .
