Christian Wulff (31 July 1810 – 1856) was a

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naval officer and friend of the writer Hans Christian Andersen.

Early life

Christian Wulff was born on 31 July 1810 in

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, the son of

Peter Frederik Wulff Peter Frederik (Friderich) Wulff (26 November 1774–2 February 1842) was a Denmark, Danish naval officer. He headed the Royal Danish Naval Academy from 1824 to 1841. Wulff, his wife Henriette Wulf, and several of his children were loyal friends ...

. He was the brother of Henriette Wulff.

Career

Wulff joined the

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as the family tradition prescribed. He became a second lieutenant in 1825 and a

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in 1835. He reached the rank of captain lieutenant and captain in 1851.

Personal life

Like his parents and sister, Wulff was a close friend of the writer Hans Christian Andersen. They exchanged many letters and Andersen stayed in his apartment at Amaliegade 37 in Copenhagen from 27 June to 24 August 1848.

Death

While stationed in Beaufort, North Carolina, Wulff contracted and died from

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in 1856. He is buried in the

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. His headstone was sent from

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by his sister Henriette. She herself would perish while traveling across the sea to visit her brother's gravesite in the tragic wreck of the steamship SS Austria in 1858.

References

External links

Letters
to Hans Christian Andersen {{DEFAULTSORT:Wulff, Christian (1810-1856) 19th-century Danish naval officers 1810 births 1856 deaths Burials at Holmen Cemetery