Editing Theodor Storm (section)

==Life==
[[File:Storm bueste.jpg|thumb|Storm-bust by [[Adolf Brütt]] (1897/98), Husum Schlosspark]]
[[File:"Theodor Storm" Zeichnung von Ingo Kühl, 1980.jpg|thumb|''Theodor Storm'', drawing by [[Ingo Kühl]] 1980]]
Storm was born in the small town of [[Husum]], on the west coast of the [[Duchy of Schleswig]], a [[fief]] of the [[Kingdom of Denmark]].<ref name="Stern"/> His parents were the lawyer Johann Casimir Storm (1790–1874) and Lucie Storm, née Woldsen (1797–1879).

Storm attended school in Husum and [[Lübeck]]. He studied law in [[Kiel]] and [[Berlin]].<ref name="Stern"/> While still a law student in [[Kiel University|Kiel]] he published a first volume of verse together with the brothers Tycho and [[Theodor Mommsen]] (1843).

Storm was involved in the [[1848 revolutions]]. He sympathized with the [[liberalism|liberal]] goals of a united Germany under a constitutional monarchy in which every class could participate in the political process.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jackson |first1=David A |title=Theodor Storm: The Life and Works of a Democratic Humanitarian |date=1992 |publisher=Berg Publishers |page=201}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Ebersold |first1=Günther |title=Politik und Gesellschaftskritik in den Novellen Theodor Storms |date=1981 |publisher=Peter Lang Verlag |page=13}}</ref> From 1843 until his admission was revoked by Danish authorities in 1852, he worked as a lawyer in his home town of Husum. In 1853 Storm moved to [[Potsdam]], moving on to [[Heilbad Heiligenstadt|Heiligenstadt]] in [[Thuringia]] in 1856. He returned to Husum in 1865 after Schleswig had come under [[Prussia]]n rule and became a district magistrate ("Landvogt"). In 1880 Storm moved to [[Hanerau-Hademarschen|Hademarschen]], where he spent the last years of his life writing, and died of cancer at the age of 70.<ref name="Stern">[http://www.bartleby.com/315/3/1000.html Adolf Stern, Biographical Note in ''The Rider on the White Horse'', The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, 1917]</ref>

Storm was married twice, first to Konstanze Esmarch, who died in 1864, and then to Dorothea Jensen.<ref name="Stern"/>