Background
Bunsen was born in Rome where his father Christian von Bunsen was serving as a Prussian diplomat to the Vatican. His mother was Frances Waddington (1791-1876).
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Ernest Ludwig
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Ernest was educated at Berlin in a school for cadets and served in the Prussian Guards.
Career
His father was the patron both of the mainstream orientalist Max Müller and of the strongly antisemitic orientalist Paul de Lagarde. Bunsen"s writings identified Brahmans as "pure Aryans." According to Bunsen the account of Genesis was to be read that Adam was the first Aryan, and the serpent in Eden the first Semite. On 13 May 1903, he died at Abbey Lodge, and was buried at Leytonstone churchyard.
Their eldest son, Fritz, died in 1870.
They had a second son, Sir Maurice de Bunsen.
