Karl Friedrich Köppen

The free. Drawing by Friedrich Engels . Karl Friedrich Köppen sitting at the table on the far right.

Karl Friedrich Köppen (born April 26, 1808 in Nieder-Goerne , Osterburg district in the Altmark , † April 26, 1863 in Berlin ) was a German teacher , political journalist , young Hegelian and historian .

Life

Köppen comes from a pastor's family in Altmark. He studied theology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin from 1827 to 1831 , but later turned to the religion-critical Young Hegelianism . After studying and serving in the military, he became a teacher at the Dorotheenstädtische Realschule in Berlin in 1833 . In 1837 he met Karl Marx and formed a close friendship with him. From 1840 he became one of the most active contributors to the Halle Yearbooks published by Arnold Ruge (from 1841: German Yearbooks ). He has written numerous reviews of political and scientific literature. In accordance with contemporary journalistic practice, his reviews are strongly influenced by his own statements. Köppen campaigned for a renewal of the Enlightenment and was an opponent of classical literature, idealistic philosophy and romanticism.

Works

• Literary introduction to Nordic mythology . Bechtold and Hartje, Berlin 1837 digitized
• Frederick the Great and his opponents . Otto Wigand , Leipzig 1840 digitized
• In celebration of Friedrich II's accession to the throne. In: Hallische Jahrbücher für Wissenschaft und Kunst . No. 147 of June 19, 1840, col. 1169 ff.
• Leo's story of the revolution . In: Rheinische Zeitung , Cologne Ntr. 139, 141, and 142 from May 19, 21 and 22, 1842
• Etiquette . In: Rheinische Zeitung, Cologne No. 174, 176, 177 and 178 of June 23, 25, 26 and 27, 1842
• The German Michel . In: Rheinische Zeitung, Cologne No. 1, 3 and 5 of January 1st, 3rd and 5th, 1843
• A few words about Buddhism . 1851
• The religion of the Buddha . 2 vols., F. Schneider Berlin 1857–1859 First volume digitized second volume digitized
• Witches and witch trials. On the history of superstition and the ingnisitorischen process . 2nd edition, O. Wigand, Leipzig 1858
• Selected Writings. Edited by Heinz Pepperle. 2 volumes, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-05-003625-7

literature

• Helmut Hirsch : Karl Friedrich Köppen. Marx's most intimate friend in Berlin. In: International Review for Social History. Vol. 1, 1936, pp. 311-370, doi : 10.1017 / S1873084100000082 .
• Helmut Hirsch: Karl Friedrich Köppen. Marx's most intimate friend in Berlin. In: Helmut Hirsch: Thinkers and Fighters. Collected contributions to the history of the labor movement. Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 1955, OCLC 460628888 , pp. 19–81.
• Helmut Hirsch: On the genesis of Karl Friedrich Köppen research. An indispensable statement of accounts. In: Lars Lambrecht (Ed.): Philosophy, literature and politics before the revolutions of 1848. On the development of democratic movements in Europe (= research on Young Hegelianism. Vol. 1), P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3 -631-30567-2 , p. 355 ff.
• H. Mode: CF Köppen, Pioneer of German Buddhist Research. A Friend of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels . In: The Maha Bodhi. International Buddhist Monthly . Calcutta 1/1978
• Heinz Pepperle, Ingrid Pepperle: The Hegelian Left. Documents on philosophy and politics in the German pre-March (= Röderberg-Taschenbuch . Vol. 145). Röderberg-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-87682-337-4 .
• Walter Schmidt: Karl Friedrich Köppen, Friedrich Engels and the Terreur in the Great French Revolution . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. Vol. 26, 1986, ISSN  0232-8577 , pp. 15-23.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Friedrich Köppen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Klutentreter. The Rheinische Zeitung from 1842/43. Documents . Dortmund 1967, p. 214
2. ↑ Originally Diss. Leipzig 1933, which however could not be defended when Hitler came to power.