Karl Hagen (historian)
Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Hagen (born October 10, 1810 in Dottenheim , † January 24, 1868 in Bern ) was a German-Swiss historian and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly .
Life
Hagen was one of four sons of the pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Hagen . He attended the Latin School Windsheim and the High School Carolinum (Ansbach) . From 1827 he studied philosophy and history at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen . He moved to the University of Jena in 1830 and began historical studies under Heinrich Luden . He spent two years studying himself. In 1833 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. During his studies in 1827 he became a member of the Arminia Erlangen fraternity and the old Erlanger fraternity Germania and in 1830 he became a member of the Jenaische fraternity / Arminia .
Hagen had his baptism of fire as a political speaker in May 1832 - he held it as a committed fraternity member at a people's meeting in Vach near Fürth , which took place at the same time as the Hambach Festival . He completed his habilitation in 1836 and became a private lecturer in history in Erlangen and from June 1837 at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , which appointed him as associate professor in 1845 . In his historiography , Hagen focused on the epoch from the Reformation to the Wars of Liberation . He also published on Medieval Studies and dealt with the importance of historical studies for the political present. Accordingly, Hagen's writing of history was shaped by a political objective. In this regard, Hagen's writings also extended far beyond the area of the specialist discipline. He wrote for later banned German Yearbooks of Arnold Ruge and for those of Karl Marx edited Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne .
By dealing with scholars such as Friedrich Christoph Schlosser and Ludwig Häusser , he developed into a determined democrat and became a member of the pre-parliament . For the constituency of Heidelberg-Weinheim-Wiesloch, he became a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly on June 27, 1848, of which he was a member until the end of the rump parliament . There he joined the left-wing democratic faction in Donnersberg . On March 27, 1849, Hagen voted against the hereditary emperorship provided for in the Paulskirche constitution . He was known as a staunch advocate of popular sovereignty. He rejected the violent enforcement of the republic , but approved the right of the people to resist the broken princes, as he recognized the rule of princes and the rule of the people as hostile opposites. He represented a moderate line, which in April 1849 with Ludwig Simon led to the separation from the parliamentary group under Wilhelm Adolf Trützschler . In 1849 he lost his professorship in Heidelberg for political reasons and from then on lived as a private citizen . The University of Bern appointed him in 1855 as the first full professor of history. In 1857 he was rector of the University of Bern . In 1868 he was naturalized in Biel / Bienne . His son Hermann Hagen (1844–1898) was a classical philologist.
Works (selection)
- Germany's literary and religious conditions in the age of the Reformation. Palm, Erlangen 1841-1844; Reprint: Scientia, Aachen 1966.
- On the political history of Germany. Franckh, Stuttgart 1842.
- Questions of time. 2 volumes. Franckh, Stuttgart 1843-1845.
- Political Catechism. 2 volumes. Westermann, Braunschweig 1848.
- History of the most recent times from the fall of Napoleon to our day. 2 volumes. Westermann, Braunschweig 1851.
- The Eastern question with special regard to Germany. Meidinger, Frankfurt am Main 1854.
- German history from Rudolf von Habsburg to the time of Frederick the Great. 3 volumes. Meidinger, Frankfurt am Main 1854–1858 (continuation of Eduard Duller's Patriotic History ).
- The politics of Rudolf von Habsburg and Albrecht I and the emergence of the Swiss Confederation. Meidinger, Frankfurt am Main 1857.
- Outline of general history, as a guide for teaching history in higher educational establishments. 3 volumes. Schultheß, Zurich 1860.
- Speeches and lectures. Jent, Bern 1861.
- The painter Johann Mich. Voltz von Nördlingen and his relationship to contemporary and art history. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart 1863.
- The foreign policy of the Confederation, especially Bern in the years 1610-18. Haller, Bern 1865.
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 2: F-H. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0809-X , pp. 222-223.
- Karl August Klüpfel : Hagen, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 341-343.
- Niklas Lenhard-Schramm: Constructors of the Nation. History professors as political actors in Vormärz and Revolution 1848/49 . Münster / New York 2014, here chap. 3-6.
- Robert Zepf : Karl Hagen , in: Frank Engehausen; Armin Kohnle (ed.): Scholars in the Revolution. Heidelberg member of the German National Assembly 1848/49. Heidelberg 1998, pp. 155-182.
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Hagen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Albert Portmann-Tinguely: Hagen, Karl. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ On Hagen's historiography: Lenhard-Schramm, 2014, pp. 111–118, 170–175 and passim.
- ^ Zepf, 1998, p. 169.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Hagen, Karl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hagen, Karl Heinrich Wilhelm (full name); Hagen, Carl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Swiss historian, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1810 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dottenheim |
DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1868 |
Place of death | Bern |