Education
University of Tartu.
historian jurist university professor
University of Tartu.
He was the older brother of botanist Alexander Bunge (1803-1890). In 1831 he became an associate professor of jurisprudence. In 1842 he relocated to Reval, where he served as Syndikus, then moving to Saint 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 (from 1865) and Wiesbaden (from 1878).