Bruno Erhard Abegg was a Prussian

Kingdom of Prussia

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 statesman

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Abegg was born in Elbing

Elblag

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 (Elbląg), where his father was a merchant and Privy TradeCouncil.

Beginning in 1822, Abegg studied law at the universities of Heidelberg and Königsberg

University of Königsberg

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, and practised in Danzig and Königsberg

Königsberg

Königsberg was the capital of East Prussia from the Late Middle Ages until 1945 as well as the northernmost and easternmost German city with 286,666 inhabitants . Due to the multicultural society in and around the city, there are several local names for it...

 (now Gdańsk and Kaliningrad, respectively). In 1831, he purchased a manor in Fischhausen

Primorsk, Kaliningrad Oblast

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 (now Primorsk), becoming head of this district on 23 April 1833. He then moved to Königsberg, where he became superintendent of the police. In 1835, he was given the title of Privy Council

Privy council

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 of the Government in Berlin

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 and sent to Breslau (Wrocław).

He became vice president of the (Commission of the Fifty) in Frankfurt

Frankfurt

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. Later, he was a member of the National Assembly in Berlin, where he died of an illness.

Abegg was a cousin of the criminalist Julius Friedrich Heinrich Abegg

Julius Friedrich Heinrich Abegg

Julius Friedrich Heinrich Abegg was a German criminalist.- Life :Abegg was born in Erlangen as the son of the preacher Dr. Johannes Wilhelm Abegg, who later moved to Königsberg to become councillor of the consistory, superintendent and later chaplain of the Court...

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Sources

- online version at Wikisource

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