When Hans Juliusen was born in 1796, in Nim, Skanderborg, Denmark, his father, Julius Thomsen, was 40 and his mother, Anna Sophia Dorthe Marcusdatter Lemche, was 37. He married Inger Marie Christensen on 8 October 1831. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 23 September 1856, in his hometown, at the age of 60, and was buried in Nim, Skanderborg, Denmark.