Daughter of a Gym­na­si­um teach­er, Ju­lie worked for a while as a gov­ern­ess, but event­u­al­ly cared full time for her fa­ther, who had gone blind. Af­ter his death in 1864, she lived with sis­ters in Ger­ma­ny, France and Switz­er­land, and lat­er with rel­a­tives in Es­ton­ia. Her works in­clude:

• Hausbrot, a book of de­vo­tions
• Mai­blum­en, Lied­er ein­er Still­en im lande, a 3-volume set of po­et­ry

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Lyrics

1. So nimm denn meine Hände
   • O Take My Hand, Dear Father