Julie Hausmann

HAUSMANN, Julie. b. Riga, Latvia, 7 March 1826; d. Wösso (now Võsu, Estonia), 15 August 1901. She was the fifth of six sisters to whom she was greatly attached. She lived a retired and private life, with few close friends: her life was one of quietness and silence (see below). She kept house for her sister Johanna, a fine organist who held posts at Biarritz and then St Petersburg. Towards the end of her life she published a book containing 700 passages that she had accumulated for devotional use in the home under the title Hausbrot (‘House Bread’, Kassel, 1896). She spent some time in spa towns for her health, and in one of these places she met the Berlin pastor Gustav Knak*, to whom she...