Wilhelm de Boor, b. 12.07.1807 in Hamburg, d. 23.01.1844 ibid., son of the Hamburg lawyer Carl Friedrich de Boor (1776-1848) and the Hamburg Senator's daughter Johanna Elisabeth Amsinck (1786-1812).

His childhood was spent on his family's country estate in Dockenhuden. 1827 `Abitur' [high school diploma] from the `Johanneum' [an elite school] in Hamburg, and then until 1830 law studies in Heidelberg. After that, he traveled in Italy and France and, after his return, started a law practice in Hamburg.

21.09.1839 marriage to Caroline Maria Henriette Schwartze (1818-1900), daughter of a Hamburg businessman.

"He took on the honorary position of a judge at the `Amtsgericht' [civil court], and managed, since the great fire of 1842, a good part of the temporary housing very actively and well. His goal had always been a paid position, near the end of 1843 he applied for the vacant post of the mortgage keeper in the `Landstube' [real estate office], without much hope. On 8.01.1844, he caught scarlet fever.[...] On the 17., he obtained, by a near-unanimous vote of the Senate, the desired position, and he learned of this in a feverfree moment, and already on the 23. he became a victim of the disease."

Familiennachrichten über die Familie de Boor von Carl de Boor (1810-1853)