 Wilhelm Busch was born on 15 April 1832 , the first of seven children to the marriage of Henriette Kleine and Friedrich Wilhelm Busch . His six siblings followed shortly after : Fanny ( 1834 ) , Gustav ( 1836 ) , Adolf ( 1838 ) , Otto ( 1841 ) , Anna ( 1843 ) and Hermann ( 1845 ) ; all survived childhood . His parents were ambitious , hard @-@ working and devout Protestants who later , despite becoming relatively prosperous , could not afford to educate all three sons . Busch 's biographer Berndt W. Wessling suggested that Friedrich Wilhelm Busch invested heavily in his sons ' education partly because his own illegitimacy held significant stigma in rural areas . 
 Wilhelm Busch was born on 15 April 1832 , the first of seven children to the marriage of Henriette Kleine and Friedrich Wilhelm Busch . His six siblings followed shortly after : Fanny ( 1834 ) , Gustav ( 1836 ) , Adolf ( 1838 ) , Otto ( 1841 ) , Anna ( 1843 ) and Hermann ( 1845 ) ; all survived childhood . His parents <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> ambitious , hard @-@ working and devout Protestants <a href='null_relcl' title='2'><mark>who</mark></a>later , despite becoming relatively prosperous , could not afford to educate all three sons . Busch <a href='null_genetive' title='3'><mark>'s</mark></a>biographer Berndt W. Wessling suggested that Friedrich Wilhelm Busch invested heavily in his sons <a href='null_genetive' title='4'><mark>'</mark></a>education partly because his own illegitimacy held significant stigma in rural areas . 
Wilhelm Busch was born on 15 April 1832 , the first of seven children to da marriage of Henriette Kleine and Friedrich Wilhelm Busch . His six siblings followed shortly after : Fanny ( 1834 ) , Gustav ( 1836 ) , Adolf ( 1838 ) , Otto ( 1841 ) , Anna ( 1843 ) and Hermann ( 1845 ) ; alll survived childhood . His parents was ambitious , hard @-@ workin and devout Protestants later , despite becoming relatively prosperous , could not afford to educate all three sons . Busch  biographer Berndt W. Wessling suggested that Friedrich Wilhelm Busch invested heavily in his sons  education partly because his own illegitimacy held significant stigma in rural areas .