In March 1818, he represented the Königsberger Landsmannschaft (fraternity) on the Allgemeinen Deutschen Burschenschaft (ADB) in Jena.
[2] On behalf of Theodor von Schön, Oberpräsident (Governor) of West Prussia he organised the libraries and archives of the monasteries, following the dissolution of 1818–1835.
Succeeding Reinhold Bernhard Jachmann, he served on the Provincial School Board for East Prussia in 1843, and in 1848 transferred to Posen Province.
[4] Through the work of Lucas, Wagner learned much about Mediaeval saga, as he put it "The German Middle Ages in a significant coloring I had not yet dreamed of".
Wagner also drew on Lucas for his Lohengrin, Parsifal and Tristan und Isolde operas.