Eduard Wunder

[1] Wunder was born at Wittenberg on May 4, 1800, the son of Karl Friedrich Wunder, deacon and later archdeacon of the Stadtkirche Wittenberg, and his wife, Christiane Friederike Ebert, daughter of Johann Jacob Ebert, a notable mathematician and astronomer.

[2] At the age of twelve, he was sent to the lyceum at Wittenberg, where in 1814 he witnessed the siege and capture of the town from the French by the Prussian general Tauentzien.

[3] In 1818, he entered the University of Leipzig, where he studied philology under Gottfried Hermann, Christian Daniel Beck, and Friedrich August Wilhelm Spohn.

[4][5] He earned his Doctorate in Philosophy in 1823, and that spring was named adjunct professor at the Fürstenschule in Grimma.

His work came to the attention of the state government at Dresden, and in 1849 he was named a Knight of the Civil Order of Saxony.