Ernst August Hagen

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Ernst August Hagen

Ernst August Hagen (born April 12, 1797 in Königsberg ; † February 16, 1880 there ) was a Prussian art writer and novelist . In the Kingdom of Prussia he was the first professor for art history and aesthetics .

family

Ernst August Hagen was born in 1797 as the son of the court pharmacist Karl Gottfried Hagen . His brother was Carl Heinrich Hagen , professor for political economy, his cousin the hydraulic engineer Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen . His younger sister Florentine Hagen later married the Königsberg physicist Franz Ernst Neumann , his older sister Johanna the astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel . At the age of 11 (1807/1808) Ernst August and his brothers, together with Princes Friedrich Wilhelm and Wilhelm, were taught by their father in his court pharmacy.

Life

Hagen passed the Abitur at the Altstädtisches Gymnasium and devoted himself to studying medicine from 1816 ( doctorate in 1821). He then went on to study art at the Philosophical Faculty. In 1820, while still a student, he published the romantic fairy tale poem "Olfried and Lisena", which Goethe rated very positively. During his studies he became a member of the old Königsberg fraternity in 1817 .

On his two-year educational trip to Rome , which took him via Göttingen and southern Germany, he met Carl Friedrich Gauß , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Jean Paul and Bertel Thorwaldsen, among others . After returning to his hometown in 1824, he began to give academic lectures on the history of art and literature .

In 1825 he was appointed associate professor and in 1831 full professor for these subjects. He was also given oversight of the university's art collections.

Hagen had numerous friendly contacts with well-known personalities of his time and also used these for the benefit of the development of art and associated institutions in his hometown. These included u. a. Peter von Cornelius (1783–1876), Ludwig von Schorn (1793–1842), Karl von der Groeben (1788–1876), Ignaz von Olfers (1826–1872), Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867), Wilhelm Eduard Albrecht (1800 –1876), Franz Kugler (1808–1858), Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), Gustav Friedrich Waagen (1794–1868), William Motherby (1776–1847), Eduard Devrient (1801–1877), Karl Schnaase (1798– 1875), Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857).

Marriage and offspring

With his wife Molly, geb. Oestreich, he lived at Zieglerstraße 5 in Königsberg. The couple had five children. The two sons embarked on a military career. Ernst Heinrich Hagen (1831–1905) was made lieutenant general , adjutant to Prince Albrecht of Prussia, raised to the Prussian nobility in 1871 and commander of Dragoon Regiment No. 5 . Johann Maria (called Hans) Hagen (1829–1910) became lieutenant colonel and director of the Kassel War School .

Ernst August Hagen died on February 16, 1880 in Königsberg.

Services

Ernst August Hagen made sure that the provincial art and drawing school for the training of artists continued. As a result, the part of the “art school” was not integrated into the “trade school”. In 1844 both schools became independent.

Together with the city ​​director Degen, the businessman Friedemann and the consul Lorck, he founded the Königsberg art and trade association in 1832 and helped organize the annual exhibitions.

In 1830, Hagen took over the old art collection of the University of Königsberg. In 1831 he acquired the university engraving collection and in 1862 transferred it to the copper engraving cabinet of the new university.

In 1838, Hagen initiated the construction of the city museum on Königsstrasse, which was completed in 1841.

Hagen asked his friend, the Provincial President Heinrich Theodor von Schön , at Friedrich Wilhelm IV. For the construction of an art school to use that Selbiger after a two-time cabinet order against the opinions of his minister Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein and its successor Johann Albrecht Friedrich von Eichhorn also approved. Hagen was not only one of the founders of the Königsberg Art Academy in the city museum, whose first director Ludwig Rosenfelder became in 1845, but also made the building possible.

With the publication of the Prussian provincial papers in 1844, Hagen founded the Prussia antiquity society . He collected the traditions of the eponymous former population of Prussia, the Pruzzen , z. B. Folk songs and sagas, and registered works of art of all kinds. He was also active archaeologically for this purpose .

In addition, Ernst August Hagen was a successful art and literature writer of his time. His book of short stories “Norica, these are Nuremberg novellas from ancient times. According to a sixteenth century manuscript “from 1829, seven editions appeared in the 19th century. Norica texts were published by Reclam in 1944. An English translation was published in 1851.

With works such as “The description of the cathedral church in Königsberg and the works of art it contains”, Königsberg, 1833 (together with AR Gebser) or the “History of the Theater in Prussia”, Königsberg, 1854, make him an important chronicler of his homeland . Many of his dramas were not performed and are now lost.

For his achievements u. a. awarded the Order of the Red Eagle II Class with Oak Leaves. In 1869 he received the title of "Privy Councilor" .

Works (excerpt)

  • Olfried and Lisena. A romantic poem in ten songs . 1820.
  • Poems . 1822
  • Norica are Nuremberg novellas from ancient times . After a manuscript from the sixteenth century . Breslau, 1829, Norika Alt-Nürnbergische histories by August Hagen, re-edited by Arthur Schurig , Dresden 1920
  • About the plaster casts based on antiquities at the University of Königsberg . 1827.
  • The chronicle of his hometown by the Florentine Ghiberti . Breslau, 1833
  • The description of the cathedral church in Königsberg and the works of art it contains . Koenigsberg, 1833; together with AR Gebser
  • De Anaglypho quod est Marienburgi, commentatio . Koenigsberg, 1834
  • Description of the painting exhibitions . Koenigsberg, 1837
  • The miracles of healing. Catherine of Siena . Leipzig, 1840
  • Leonardo da Vinci in Milan . Leipzig, 1840
  • About the St. Adalbert's Chapel in Tenkitten . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Volume 5, Koenigsberg 1848, pp. 256-276.
  • History of the theater in Prussia . Koenigsberg, 1854
  • German art in our century . Berlin, 1855
  • Max v. Schenkendorf's poems. With an outline of the life and explanations . (Published by A. Hagen), Berlin, 1862
  • Max v. Schenkendorf's life, thinking and poetry . Berlin, 1863
  • Eight years from the life of Michelangelo Bonarrotti . Berlin, 1869
  • Königsberg's engravers and shape cutters in the 16th and 17th centuries . Koenigsberg, 1879
  • Edward the Third: Tragedy in Five Acts . Leipzig, 1879

Individual evidence

  1. ^ An oil painting by Luise Neumann lost in the Second World War
  2. ↑ August Hagen. A memorial for his hundredth birthday. April 12, 1897. Berlin, 1997
  3. ^ Fritz Gause:  Hagen, Ernst August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , p. 470 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Materials on this: http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/714905947/
  5. ↑ Materials on this: http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/714905947/

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SURNAME Hagen, Ernst August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagen, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1797
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1880
Place of death Königsberg (Prussia)