Friedrich Georg von Bunge


Friedrich Georg von Bunge was a German legal historian. He was the older brother of botanist Alexander Bunge.
From 1819 he studied jurisprudence at the University of Dorpat, where he attained his habilitation as a lecturer in 1823. In 1831 he became an associate professor of jurisprudence. In 1842 he relocated to Reval, where he served as Syndikus, then moving to St. Petersburg, where from 1856 to 1865, he worked as a senior official in the second division of the Registry to the Emperor. Afterwards he lived and worked in Gotha and Wiesbaden.

Works

Known for his scientific handing of local private law, he was acclaimed as compiler of the Baltic Private Law Code. The following are a few of his many writings: