Friedrich Georg von Bunge

Friedrich Georg von Bunge (13 March 1802, Kiev – 9 April 1897, Wiesbaden) was a Baltic German legal historian. He was the older brother of botanist Alexander Bunge (1803-1890).

Friedrich Georg von Bunge (1802-1897)

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,[1] 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.[2] Afterwards he lived and worked in Gotha (from 1865) and Wiesbaden (from 1878).[1]

Works

Known for his scientific handing of local private law, he was acclaimed as compiler of the Baltic Private Law Code (BPLC).[3] The following are a few of his many writings:

  • Einleitung in die liv-, esth- und curländische Rechtsgeschichte und Geschichte der Rechtsquellen, 1849 - Introduction to Livonian, Estonian and Courlandian legal history and the history of legal sources.
  • Die Revaler Rathslinie : nebst Geschichte der Rathsverfassung und einem Anhange über Riga und Dorpat, 1874 - Reval Rathlinie: with a history of Rath constitution and an appendix on Riga and Dorpat
  • Geschichte des Gerichtswesens und Gerichtsverfahrens in Liv-, Est- und Curland, 1874 - History of the court system and court proceedings in Livonia, Estonia and Courland.
  • Das herzogthum Estland unter den königen von Dänemark, 1877 - The Duchy of Estonia among the kings of Denmark.
  • Die Stadt Riga im dreizehnten und vierzehnten Jahrhundert. Geschichte, Verfassung und Rechtszustand, 1878 - The city of Riga in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, etc.[4]

References
  1. ADB: Bunge, Friedrich Georg von @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  2. Statement based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia.
  3. Juridica International Private Law of the Baltic Provinces as a Patriotic Act
  4. OCLC Classify (publications)
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