Childhood
Mads Lange was born in Rudkøbing on the 18th of September 1807, as the second son of Lorents Lange and Maren Hansen. He had one sister and ten brothers, three of whom were children from an earlier marriage of his mother. The youngest brother died when he was six years old. No more is known about Mads Lange's childhood.
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