Karl Heinrich von Lang

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Karl Heinrich von Lang

Karl Heinrich Lang , since 1808 Knight von Lang , (born June 7, 1764 in Balgheim near Nördlingen , † March 26, 1835 in Ansbach ) was a German historian and publicist .

Life

Karl Heinrich Lang was the son of Pastor Konstantin Lang and his wife Sophie Buttersack. His grandfather was the chamber director of the Count von Wallerstein. After Lang had completed his school lessons by private tutors , he began in 1782 to study law at the University of Altdorf . In the summer of 1785 he broke off his studies without a degree and got a job in the administration of the Oettingen-Spielberg and Oettingen-Wallerstein families .

In 1791 Lang left his position and went to Vienna . There he earned his living as a tutor for various noble families and was also the secretary of the Württemberg ambassador at the Viennese court. In 1790 Lang returned to Wallerstein and also worked as a secretary in the Oettingen house. Dissatisfied with the politics of his employer, Lang went to the University of Göttingen in 1792 to study camera science and politics. In 1793, Lang finished his studies without a degree, but got a job in the Prussian civil service as a university prize winner.

Although Lang had become an enthusiastic supporter of the ideas of Justus Möser , Christian Friedrich Spittler , August Ludwig von Schlözer and Wilhelm Ludwig Wekhrlin in Göttingen , he got on very well with Minister Karl August von Hardenberg . In 1795 Lang became the first archivist in Bayreuth and as such he married Friederike Ammon the following year in Truppach , who died in 1797 after a year of marriage.

In 1797, Lang took part in the Rastatt Congress together with Hardenberg . Supported by his employer, Lang (now a war and domain council) was entrusted with the processing and administration of fiefdom and church matters. In 1799, Lang married Henriette Maria von Reitzenstein , a daughter of the forester Adam von Reitzenstein , in a second marriage ; with her he had a son.

Lang's second wife died in 1801 and after the obligatory year of mourning, Lang married Luise Sophie, the widow of Johann Adam Schöpf, in Erlangen in 1802 .

When in 1806 the Principality of Ansbach was added to the Kingdom of Bavaria at Napoleon's request , Lang was accepted into the Bavarian civil service. He was entrusted with the management of the administration of the Rezatkreis , and the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph awarded Lang the Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown in 1808 , with which he was raised to the Bavarian personal knighthood .

When the newly established General Reich Archives in Munich began its work in 1810 , Lang was appointed to direct it. In 1812 he took over the presidency of the Reichsheroldamt . Dissatisfied with the political situation in Bavaria and also because of the personal hostility from his work, he resigned his offices and left Munich. As a government director he returned to the Rezatkreis. There he founded - privately, so to speak - with the historical association of the Rezatkreis, the first regional history association in Bavaria.

In 1817 Lang left the Bavarian civil service. Since 1817 he was a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1822 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Lang developed a broad journalistic and journalistic activity and published several historical books. The source work of the Regesta Boica goes back to him . He was best known in historical research through his memoirs published posthumously in 1842. In his memoirs he severely criticized the political situation and his contemporaries. For a long time this work was thought to be untrue because of its satirical style. Only the historian Adalbert von Raumer (1891–1914) was able to prove that all facts are based on historical facts.

Works (selection)

  • Memoirs of Karl Heinrich Ritter von Lang. Sketches from my life and work, my travels and my time. In two parts. Printed and published by Friedrich Vieweg and Son, Braunschweig 1842. ISBN 3-7896-0399-6 . (Volume 10 of the Bibliotheca Franconica. Facsimile of the 1842 edition, Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1984. Afterword Heinrich von Mosch .)
  • Modern history of the principality of Baireuth .
    • Part I: From 1486 to 1527 . Göttingen 1798 ( books.google.de ).
    • Part II: From 1527 to 1557 . Göttingen 1801 ( books.google.de ).
    • Part III: Reign of Margrave Georg Friedrich from 1557 to 1603 . Nuremberg 1811 ( books.google.de )
  • Comments on Heinrich Zschokke's Baierischer Tales First and Second Book . Munich 1813 ( books.google.de ).
  • Book of nobility of the Kingdom of Bavaria . Grundwerk I, Munich 1815 ( archive.org ).
  • Minister Count von Montgelas under the government of King Maximilian von Baiern . Without a location, 1814 ( books.google.de ).
  • Reflections on Herr von Pallhausen's Garibaldic stories . Munich 1815 ( archive.org ).
  • Bavarian yearbooks from 1179–1294. Made from the documents of the Reich Archives . Ansbach 1816 ( books.google.de ).
  • Hammelburger Reisen .
    • Strange trip via Erlangen, Dreßden, Kassel and Fulda to Hammelburg . Munich 1817 ( books.google.de ).
    • Continued trip to Hammelburg or my hard fortunes in Kautzen-Land . Munich 1818 ( books.google.de ).
    • Third trip . Munich 1818 ( books.google.de ).
    • Fourth trip, or the latest news from the countries Großgescheid and Kleingescheid . Ansbach 1821 ( books.google.de ).
    • Fifth trip, or my administration in new decision . Ansbach 1822 ( books.google.de ).
    • Sixth voyage, or my stay at the court of Prince Ottokar's rifleman . Ansbach 1823 ( books.google.de ).
    • Seventh trip, or my fate as a Karthauser in Grünau monastery . Ansbach 1824 ( books.google.de ).
    • Eighth trip, or my events at the court of Prince Ypsilandi in Greece . Ansbach 1826 ( books.google.de ).
    • Ninth journey, or sketches from the life of Mr. Elias Springer Junior zu Hammelburg as a contribution to the biographies of the Hammelburg contemporaries . Nuremberg 1828 ( books.google.de ).
    • Tenth trip, or imprisonment and slavery in Algiers . Nuremberg 1830.
    • Eleventh trip, or my adventures in the air . Nuremberg 1833 ( books.google.de ).
  • Reverendi in Christo patris Jacobi Marelli SJ amores e scriniis provinciae Superioris Germaniae Monachii nuper apertis brevi libello expositi . Munich, 1815 (see: Jakob Marell )
  • Baierns Gauen after the three tribes of the Alemanni, Franks and Bojoaren, proven from the old diocese Sprengeln . Nuremberg 1830 ( books.google.de ).
  • Baiern's old counties and areas, as a continuation of Baiern's Gauen, documented and historically proven . Nuremberg 1831 ( books.google.de ).
  • History of the penultimate margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach . Ansbach 1848 ( books.google.de ).
  • Letter to Dr. Johann Friedrich Böhmer in Frankfurt am Main as the editor of the Kaiser Regesten with contributions and additions to the same . Nuremberg 1833 ( archive.org ).
  • From the bad old days. Memories / Newly edited by Viktor Petersen. Robert Lutz, Stuttgart no year [approx. 1923].

Anonymous publications of satirical content for which Lang could be considered as an author, but which today are more likely to be attributed to Ludwig Wellmer

  • Hammelburger Conversations Lexicon. Announcement and first sample issue. Elias Springer, Hammelburg [or Leipzig?] 1819 ( books.google.de ).

Scherzburger acts .

    • Volume I: The protocol-based hearing of the Scherzburg Regional Court on the subject of trade tax reclamations . 1819.
    • Volume II: Extract from the annual reports of the Scherzburg Regional Court for the year 1820/21 . ( books.google.de ).
    • Volume III: Some notes from the wallet of Deputy Nepomuk v. Zwicklheim with dry notes and a historical appendix . Nuremberg 1828 ( archive.org ).

As editor :

  • Together with Konrad Siegmund Karl von Hänlein: New State Archives of the Königl. Prussia. Principalities in Franconia . Volume I, Issue 1, Ansbach 1800 ( archive.org ).
  • Together with Heinrich Christoph Büttner and Julius W. Schulz: Historical description of the Rezat circle . Second booklet: District Court of Dünkelsbühl . Nuremberg 1810 ( books.google.de ).

literature

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ^ Members of the previous academies. Karl Heinrich Ritter von Lang. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on April 21, 2015 .
  2. Adalbert von Raumer: The Knight of Lang and his memoirs. Edited by Karl Alexander von Müller and Kurt von Raumer. Munich 1923, pp. 73-212.
  3. See Otmar Seemann : Incomplete lexicons and encyclopedias. An addendum to war: MNE. In: Karl H. Pressler (Ed.): From the Antiquariat. Volume 8, 1990 (= Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel - Frankfurter Ausgabe. No. 70, August 31, 1990), pp. A 329 - A 334, here: p. A 331.