From 1819 to 1820, he served in the
Prussian Army as a one-year volunteer. At the same time, he studied law and literature at the
Friedrich-Wilhelm University in
Berlin and the
Ruprecht-Karl University in
Heidelberg. In December 1820, he and ten other students founded the
Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg. He passed the auscultator (trainee lawyer) examination in April 1822 and was awarded a doctorate in the same year. After he passed the traineeship exam in November 1823, he was called up to the Prussian Foreign Service in May 1824. He initially served as an
attaché in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From October 1826 to the spring of 1827 he was temporarily employed at the
German embassy in Saint Petersburg before passing his diplomatic examination in October 1827. As Legation secretary he came to the embassy in
Lisbon at the beginning of 1828 and to the embassy in
Istanbul in 1829. Temporarily its acting head, he was involved in the
Treaty of Adrianople in 1829. In December 1832 he was given the status of Legation councilor. From July 1833 to the beginning of 1838 he was Secretary of legation at the embassy in Paris. ==Personal life==