Georg Bötticher

Georg Bötticher's maternal grandfather was the Privy Councillor, Professor Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand, who became known as a philologist and musicologist.

Hand had taught the Weimar princesses Augusta and Maria, led a singing society for years and written a respected Aesthetics of Musical Art.

[3] Bötticher grew up in his grandparents' house in Jena and attended the Zenker Institute during his primary school years.

At about the same time, he also began his literary work and made his debut as a writer for children and young people in the magazine Deutsche Jugend.

In the following years, the marriage produced the children Wolfgang (1879–1946), Ottilie, later married Mitter (1882–1957) and Hans (1884–1934), who later called himself Joachim Ringelnatz as a writer and cabaretist.

Having moved to Leipzig with his family in 1897, he published Das chinesische Buch (The Chinese Book) with illustrations by Rudolf Alfred Jaumann [de].

Here, further of his books How the Soldiers Wanted to Become Animals (1892), together with illustrations by his friend Fedor Flinzer, "Der Deutsche Michel", "Allotria" and, in 1895, "Das lustige Jena" were published.

This was followed by "Balladen, Legenden und Schwänke" [Ballads, Legends and Tales] and, together with Lothar Meggendorfer, the book "Der Verwandlungskünstler" [The Transformer] in 1899.

A year after his death, to honour him, a plaque of the "Leonides" Edwin Bormann and Georg Bötticher was erected at the Leipzig City Hall.

Part of Georg Bötticher's artistic estate, including numerous designs for patterns, is in the collections of the Grassi Museum in Leipzig.