威廉·伦琴生于一个布匹生产商的家庭,并且是商人的独生子。他3岁时,全家搬至荷兰,在那里上了寄宿学校。那时他并没有显现出任何特殊的天赋,但是非常热爱自然并喜欢在空旷地区和森林漫步。他特别擅长制作机械小发明,这个性格特征在之后的生活中一直保留着。1862年他进入一个技术学校,但是却因为被揭发画漫画讽刺一位老师而被不公平地开除了,实际上做这件事的另有其人。 William Loren was born in a cloth producer's family, and is the only child of a businessman. When he was 3 years old, the whole family moved to the Netherlands, where boarding school. At that time he did not show any special talent, but very natural love and like walking in the open area and the forest. He is particularly good at making small mechanical inventions that have remained in the rest of his life. He entered a technical school in 1862, but was unfairly expelled for being exposed as a caricature of a teacher, in fact doing something else.