Christian Friedrich Koch

Koch was born in Mohrin, Prussian Neumark, where his father was a day laborer.

Koch started an apprenticeship as a tailor and worked at the same time as a copyist at the local court of Mohrin.

He studied French law in Cologne and Aachen and was appointed justice of the supreme court at Marienwerder (1829).

Koch reconstructed the entire Prussian jurisprudence, upon the theory and practice of which his work exerted great influence.

[1][2] Koch bequeathed the major part of his assets of about 300,000 Mark to his hometown to build an orphanage.