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.)
Il demeurait dans sa petite maison de Königstrasse, une habitation moitié bois, moitié brique, à pignon dentelé; elle donnait sur l'un de ces canaux sinueux qui se croisent au milieu du plus ancien quartier de Hambourg que l'incendie de 1842 a heureusement respecté.