[1] In around 1830, the London Missionary Society dispatched Handt to work with natives in Australia, alongside a few other Germans.

Their work came to an end when one of them[a] came down with an illness and the couple were forced to return to Sydney.

[1] Handt married Mary Crook (died 1844[8]), the eldest daughter of educator and missionary William Pascoe Cook,[9] in July 1832.

[10] One source states that Handt died at a prison hospital in Geelong, Victoria, on 7 July 1863, aged 70.

[2] Another source writes that he died at his residence in Bond Street, Chillwell.