Life
Storm was born in the small town of Husum, at the west coast of Schleswig, then a formally independent duchy ruled by the king of Denmark. His parents were the lawyer Johann Casimir Storm (1790-1874) and Lucie Storm, née Woldsen (1797-1879).
Storm was schooled in Husum and Lübeck and studied law in Kiel and Berlin. While still a student of law, he published a first volume of verse together with the brothers Tycho and Theodor Mommsen.
From 1843 until his admission was revoked by Danish authorities in 1852, he worked as a lawyer in his hometown Husum. In 1853, Storm emigrated to Potsdam, moving on to Heiligenstadt in Thuringia in 1856. He returned to Husum in 1865, after Schleswig had come under Prussian rule, and became a district magistrate ("Landvogt"). In 1880 Storm moved to Hademarschen, where he spent the last years of his life writing, and died of cancer at the age of 70.
Storm was married twice, first to Konstanze Esmarch, who died in 1864, and then to Dorothea Jensen.
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