Karl Wünsch

Karl Wünsch (born March 4, 1793 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † April 29, 1837 in Berlin ) was a German lawyer.

Life

Karl Wünsch was born as the son of Christian Ernst Wünsch , who later became the rector of the University of Frankfurt (Oder) .

After attending grammar school in Frankfurt (Oder), he went to the university there in 1810 and enrolled to study law. In 1811 he moved to the newly founded University of Berlin .

After completing his studies, he became an auscultator in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1813 , trainee lawyer at the Supreme Court in Berlin in 1816 and then also an assessor there in 1819 . In 1822 he was appointed higher regional judge in Naumburg and in 1825 transferred to Frankfurt am Main in this office . During the trip there he was in transit in Berlin when he received the call to take part in the commission for the revision of the legislation, so he stayed in Berlin. In 1828 he joined the Secret High Tribunal Court as an unskilled worker and was responsible for marriage law and servants' rules.

After he was appointed to the chamber judge at the chamber court , he made a trip to Italy for health reasons , but he also combined the trip with his interest in classical literature and art as well as for ancient church music. Despite the mild climate, he returned home after fourteen months, unhealthy and began to work in his new sphere of activity.

In 1835 he became chairman of the commission of the senior appeals senate for the oral procedure.

In the last years of his life he devoted himself to astronomy and on his last trip he visited several observatories, so he brought a Fraunhofer lens with him from Munich . He was also very interested in music and spent his free time with art-loving friends and listened to Georg Friedrich Handel , Christoph Willibald Gluck , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Luigi Cherubini ; On the day he died, a friend sang an aria from Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride with piano accompaniment .

In literary terms, he was active in a translation of the Sophocles' Philoctetes , in which he did not translate literally, but according to the poetic sense and colored the translation in the style of Goethian dramas.

On March 31, 1821, he married Caroline Luise, a daughter of the stable master August Raabe, who died in Düsseldorf, and the marriage remained childless.

Fonts

• Sophocles: Philoctetes . Berlin 1830.

literature

• Karl Wünsch in New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Volume 15, 1837, Part 1. Weimar 1839. pp. 511-514.