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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).
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]
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:
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