When Hans Christian Heise was born on 28 July 1786, in Hohenstein, Stein, Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, Germany, his father, Jochen Hinrich Heise, was 43 and his mother, Maria Magdalena Petersen, was 35. He married Lucia Wilhelmina Jansen on 24 April 1810, in Neukirchen, Quern, Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Prussia, Germany. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 15 July 1856, in Oldenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, at the age of 69.