Johann Ludwig Karl Heinrich von Struve
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Johann Ludwig Karl Heinrich von Struve (August 9, 1812 – March 3, 1898) was the youngest son of the large brood of children of Johann Christoph Gustav von Struve and Sibilla Christiane Friederike von Hochstetter; part of the Struve family and brother to Gustav Struve.
Struve was born in Stuttgart, in what was the Kingdom of Württemberg, during the short-lived Confederation of the Rhine.
Like his siblings before him, he attended the Gymnasium and Polytechnic schools in Stuttgart, before attending law school, which he did not finish, having been bitten by wanderlust before his final exams. He then joined and traveled to the province of Silesia, as a member of the Prussian military.
It was there that he met his first wife, Stephanie von Borowsky, the daughter of the local nobleman J. von Borowsky, and on September 19, 1836, they were married at the Borowsky estate at Posen.
Struve and Stephanie farmed land in Froeschen which Struve had bought from Borowsky, and there they had four children, including one who died shortly after birth:
- Friedrich Wilhelm Amand von Struve (1838–1902)
- Louis Joseph von Struve (1839–1921)
- Sibilla "Silly" von Struve (born 1840–1841)
Stephanie died shortly after the fourth child died at birth.
Life in Berlin
von Struve then traveled to Berlin and there he married his cousin, Wilhelmine Charlotte Margarete "Minna" von Hochstetter on September 19, 1844.
With Minna and his young family, he went back to his land holdings in the east and another daughter came, Stephanie von Struve, born 1847 in Chobanin, Kingdom of Poland.
Shortly thereafter the German Revolution of 1848 began, and Heinrich's brother, Gustav Struve, who was a leading component of such, caused the Struve name to be less than honorable for the times and created an environment less than hospitable for Heinrich von Struve and his family, as he too had supported the democratic cause. Like many of his German countrymen, he decided the only solution was to emigrate. He chose Texas, in the United States, as destination.
