Agathon Wunderlich
Gottlob Friedrich Walter Agathon Wunderlich was a German jurist and a member of the Oberappellationsgericht [der vier Freien Städte].
History
Wunderlich was the son of philologist Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich. Although he was not a Prussian citizen, he was awarded a scholarship to study at the prestigious Landesschule Pforta. Afterwards he studied at the University of Göttingen, obtaining his law degree in 1832. In 1833 he received his habilitation and began serving as an Hanoverian civil servant. Due to the repeal of the Hanoverian state constitution by King Ernest Augustus and associated dismissal of the Göttingen Seven, Wunderlich moved to Berlin to acquire "Prussian habilitation".Through assistance from Johann Jakob Bachofen, he attained the chair of Roman law at the University of Basel in 1838. In Basel he published works on medieval Verfahrensrechtler. In 1842 he became a professor at the University of Rostock, followed by a professorship at the University of Halle. In 1850 he was appointed as a judge of the Oberappellationsgericht der vier Freien Städte in Lübeck.
Writings
De antiqua litterarum obligatio, dissertation. Göttingen 1832Andreae Joannis de Summula processu iudicii / ex cod. Basil. in integrum restituit. Schweighauser, Basel 1840Anecdota quae spectant processum civilem. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1841Tancredi Summa de Matrimonio. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1841Rechtssprüche und Gutachten der Juristen-Facultät zu Rostock. Reimer, Berlin 1846- Edition of George Arnold Heise's Handelsrecht ; Frankfurt 1858Bibliotheca Wunderlich: Altera editio. Halle/Saale 1858Die Jurisprudenz des Oberappellations-Gerichts der vier freien Städte Deutschlands in bürgerlichen Rechtssachen aus Lübeck 1848-64. two volumes, Gesenius, Bremen 1866.