Adolf Schults

His father was a foreman in a silk goods factory, while his more-educated mother[1] came from a French family.

[3] He mainly worked as an accountant while writing poetry in his free time, in a situation similar to his childhood friend Friedrich Roeber.

Among his most famous poems, some of which also contained sociopolitical themes, is the satirical parody Ein neues Lied von den Webern (A New Song of the Weavers), written in response to Heinrich Heine's 1844 poem The Silesian Weavers.

[5] In Schults' estate, the historian Michael Knieriem found the fragment of a drama by Friedrich Engels, entitled Cola di Rienzi.

[7] He died on 2 April 1858 in Elberfeld—reportedly "excessive work, especially at night time, increased his nervousness and ultimately led to the uncanny chest pain [Brustleiden] to which he succumbed".