Editing Wilhelm Busch (section)

==Family background==
[[File:Buschhaus in Wiedensahl.JPG|thumb|240px|The house in which Busch was born, Wiedensahl, 2008]]

Johann Georg Kleine, Wilhelm Busch's maternal grandfather, settled in the small village of [[Wiedensahl]], where in 1817 he bought a thatched half-timbered house where Wilhelm Busch was to be born 15 years later. Amalie Kleine, Johann's wife and Wilhelm Busch's grandmother, kept a shop where Busch's mother Henriette assisted while her two brothers attended high [[Gymnasium (school)|school]]. When Johann Georg Kleine died in 1820, his widow continued to run the shop with Henriette.<ref>Kraus, p. 9</ref><ref>Pape, p. 14</ref><ref>Schury, p. 17</ref>

At the age of 19 Henriette Kleine married surgeon Friedrich Wilhelm Stümpe.<ref>Schury, p. 16</ref> Henriette became widowed at the age of 26, with her three children to Stümpe dying as infants. About 1830 Friedrich Wilhelm Busch, the illegitimate son of a farmer, settled in Wiedensahl after completing a business apprenticeship in the nearby village of [[Loccum]]. He took over the Kleine shop in Wiedensahl, which he completely modernised.<ref>Weissweiler, p. 14</ref> He married Henriette Kleine Stümpe.