Why is Schliemann sent to live with an uncle when he is nine years old as noted in the biography, The Walls of Windy Troy?

When he is nine years old, his mother dies; meanwhile, his father, a minister, becomes implicated in a murky scandal concerning misappropriation of church funds. With his mother dead and his father preoccupied, Schliemann is sent to live with his uncle, the pastor Friederich Schliemann of Kalkhorst.