Early Life and Education
Bunsen was born at Korbach, an old town in the little German principality of Waldeck.
His father was a farmer who was driven by poverty to become a soldier. Having studied at the Korbach Grammar school and Marburg University, Bunsen went in his nineteenth year to Göttingen, where he supported himself by teaching and later by acting as tutor to William Backhouse Astor, John Jacob's son. He won the university prize essay of the year 1812 by a treatise on the Athenian Law of Inheritance, and a few months later the University of Jena granted him the honorary degree of doctor of philosophy.
Read more about this topic: Christian Charles Josias Von Bunsen
Famous quotes containing the words early, life and/or education:
“Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You’ve got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven’s “Pastoral.” A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in your pocket because it smells of all the lilacs in Ohio.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the “mainstream” culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn’t think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”
—Jan Clausen (b. 1943)
“As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one would be a penny the stupider.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)