Education
In autumn, 1814, he began to study jurisprudence at Heidelberg, where he graduated, 22 November 1817.
historian university professor
In autumn, 1814, he began to study jurisprudence at Heidelberg, where he graduated, 22 November 1817.
After studying at the Latin school of Mülheim on the Rhine (1805-1809), and later at Cologne (1809-1813), he fought against Napoleon I in 1814, as a volunteer in a Russian regiment. He remained at Heidelberg as Privatdozent until Easter, 1819, where he was called to the newly founded University of Bonn. He taught various juristic branches there until 1875, when he resigned on account of blindness.
In a special pamphlet (1848) he opposed the incorporation into the criminal code of an article allowing the State to deprive the clergy of ecclesiastical rights, and on 4 October 1849, he delivered an oration in defense of ecclesiastical independence in the management of church affairs
He was a member of the Prussian National Assembly in 1848 and of the First Chamber of Deputies in 1849.