Friedrich Christian August Hasse

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Friedrich Christian August Hasse

Friedrich Christian August Hasse (born January 4, 1773 in Rehfeld , † February 6, 1848 in Leipzig ) was a German historian , encyclopaedist and writer .

Life

After lessons with his father, Hasse attended the Lyceum in Lübben with Karl Benedikt Suttinger and was a brother of the pharmacist Johann Christoph Hasse . On May 24, 1791, he began studying law at the University of Wittenberg and completed it on July 17, 1794 with his examen pro praxi, as a notary . Then he spent two years Repetent and was tutor to the sons of the Prince of Schönburg-Waldenburg. He then went to Dresden , where he found a job at the local cadet institute in 1798 as an associate professor . After becoming professor of morality and history there in 1803, he went back to Wittenberg , where on April 30, 1811, he acquired the academic degree of master's degree from the philosophical faculty. After continuing to work in Dresden, he was appointed professor for historical auxiliary sciences at the University of Leipzig in October 1828 , which office he held until the end of his life. Heinrich Wuttke was his successor . In 1846, the year it was founded, he was elected a full member of the Royal Saxon Society of Sciences .

During his time he wrote several biographical articles and contributed to numerous articles in encyclopedias . The four-volume “Pocket Encyclopedia or reference library of the most knowledgeable in terms of nature and art”, Johann Samuel Verschs and Johann Gottfried Gruber's “ General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts ” and the “Conversations Lexicon” by Brockhaus are to be found here be called. After the death of Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus , he took over the editing of the 6th and 7th editions of the Conversations-Lexicon and in October 1830 he was given responsibility for the editorship of the Leipziger Zeitung , which he worked until 1846. He is the father of Friedrich Rudolph Hasse (1808–1862) and Karl Ewald Hasse (1810–1902). His daughter Christiane Therese († 1907) married the publisher Wilhelm Engelmann (1808–1878) in 1839 .

literature

  • Heinrich Döring : Friedrich Christian August Hasse. In: Bernhard Friedrich Voigt (Ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen. Year 26, 1848, part 1, Voigt, Weimar 1850, pp. 149–154, no. 28. ( online )
  • General German Real Encyclopedia for the educated classes. Conversations Lexicon. 11th edition, Volume 7, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1866, p. 695. ( online )
  • Wilhelm Krafft:  Hasse, Friedrich Christian August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 754.
  • Reinhard Müller: Hasse, Friedrich Christian August. In: Wilhelm Kosch : German Literature Lexicon. 3rd edition, Volume 7, 1979, columns 467-468.
  • Matriculation of the University of Wittenberg. Volume 6, p. 209.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Lülfing:  Engelmann, Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 517 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Hasse, Friedrich Christian August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian, encyclopedist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Rehfeld
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1848
Place of death Leipzig