ABSTRACT
Born in Aurich, Hanover, on August 28, 1825, to a pious middle-class family-his father was a civil architect and his mother's family included several Lutheran ministers-Ulrichs studied law at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin (1844-47) and became a junior attorney in the civil service of the Kingdom of Han over. But as early as 1854, under circum stances not entirely clear, he voluntarily left state service and afterwards earned his living by writing and related activities: he was for several years a free-lance jour nalist and private secretary of a represen tative to the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main.
