Introduction

Biography

Educated at the Uni­ver­si­ties of Mar­burg and Gött­ing­en, Bun­sen be­gan his ca­reer as an as­sist­ant mas­ter in the Gym­na­si­um at Gött­ing­en, but soon en­tered a life of schol­ar­ship and di­plo­ma­cy.

He served as the Pruss­ian min­is­ter in Rome (1823–38) and Berne (1838–41), and am­bas­sa­dor to Eng­land (1841–54).

Works

• Description of Rome, 1819
• Versuch eines all­ge­mein­en evan­gel­isch­en Ge­sang- und Ge­bet­buchs, 1833. This mass­ive work, con­tain­ing 934 hymns and 350 prayers, was re­pub­lished as All­ge­mein­en Evan­gel­isch­en Ge­sang-und-Ge­bet­buchs zum Kirch­en-und-Haus­ge­brauch: In Völl­ig Neu­er Be­ar­beit­ung von Al­bert Fisch­er, 1833
• Egypt’s Place in the World’s His­to­ry, 1848
• Hippolytus and His Age, 1852
• Outlines of a Phi­lo­so­phy of Uni­ver­sal His­to­ry, 1854
• Signs of the Times, 1855
• God in His­to­ry, 1857–58
• Bibel-Werk (Cri­ti­cal Text of the Bi­ble), with com­men­tar­ies (un­fin­ished)