He lived in his own little house in Königstrasse, a structure half brick and half wood, with a gable cut into steps; it looked upon one of those winding canals which intersect each other in the middle of the ancient quarter of Hamburg, and which the great fire of 1842 had fortunately spared. [1] Sixty-three. (Tr.)
Vivía en su modesta casita de König-strasse, en cuya construcción entraban por partes iguales la madera y el ladrillo, y que daba a uno de esos canales tortuosos que cruzan el barrio más antiguo de Hamburgo, felizmente respetado por el incendio de 1842.