When Heinrich Edmund Ludwig August Adam was born on 19 July 1853, in Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Goslar, Niedersachsen, Germany, his father, Heinrich Friedrich Ludwig Adam, was 30 and his mother, Christiane Henriette Emma Pein, was 31. He married Anna Weigert on 9 May 1876, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 28 December 1897, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, at the age of 44, and was buried in Aldea Protestante, Diamante, Entre Ríos, Argentina.