Theodor Storm

Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (14 September 1817 – 4 July 1888) was a German writer. He was born in Husum (die graue Stadt am grauen Meer, "the grey town by the grey sea"), on the west coast of Schleswig, of well-to-do parents. While still a student of law, he published a first volume of verse toge...

Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (14 September 1817 – 4 July 1888) was a German writer. He was born in Husum (die graue Stadt am grauen Meer, "the grey town by the grey sea"), on the west coast of Schleswig, of well-to-do parents. While still a student of law, he published a first volume of verse together with the brothers Tycho and Theodor Mommsen. He worked as a lawyer in Schleswig-Holstein, but emigrated to Thuringia in 1851, leaving his mother's household, and did not return until 1864 to become a writer leaving his homeland in Denmark. He wrote a number of stories, poems and novellas. His two most well-known works are the novellas Immensee ("Bees' Lake", 1849) and Der Schimmelreiter ("The Rider on the White Horse"), first published in April 1888 in the Deutsche Rundschau. Other published works include a volume of his poems (1852), the novella Pole Poppensp?ler (1874) and the novella Aquis submersus (1877).