Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Hagen

Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Hagen, Karl Hagen called ( born October 10, 1810 in Dieter Home Dottenheim; † January 24, 1868 in Bern ) was a historian and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly in St. Paul Church.

Life

Hagen was one of four sons of the pastor Friedrich Wilhelm Hagen. After attending grammar school in Windsheim and Ansbach High School in 1827, he studied philosophy and history in Erlangen. He moved to Jena in 1830 and began under Henry Luden with historical studies. He spent two years with self-study. In 1833 he received his doctorate in Erlangen. During his studies, he became in 1827 a member of the fraternity Arminia Erlangen and the Old Erlanger fraternity Germania and 1830 he was a member of the fraternity Jenaische / Armina.

His baptism of fire was as a political orator Hagen in May 1832 - this he held as a dedicated fraternity members at a public meeting in Vach in Fürth, which took place simultaneously with the Hambach Festival.

He habilitated in 1836 and was a lecturer in history at Erlangen and in June 1837 in Heidelberg, where he was appointed associate professor in 1845. He wrote for the later banned German Annals of Arnold Ruge and for edited by Karl Marx Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne.

By dealing with scholars such as locksmiths and Ludwig Hausser, it developed into a decided Democrat, and was a deputy in the Pre-Parliament. For the electoral district of Heidelberg -Weinheim - Wiesloch he was on June 27, 1848 Member of the National Assembly in Frankfurt, where he remained until the end of the Rump Parliament. There he joined the left-wing democratic faction Thunder Mountain.

Hagen was known as a strict advocate of popular sovereignty. He rejected the violent enforcement of the Republic, but approved a right of resistance of the people against the treacherous prince, as he recognized at all princely rule and rule by the people as hostile opposites.

He held a moderate line, which together with Ludwig Simon led to separation of the fraction under Wilhelm Adolf Truetzschler in April 1849.

In 1849 he lost his teaching position in Heidelberg and went to live as a private citizen. In 1855 he was appointed as a full professor of history at the University of Bern and appointed there in 1857 as Rector of the philosophical faculty.

Works

• Reprinted Germany's religious and literary relations in the age of Reformation, 1841-1844, 1966
• Issues of the time (two parts)
• Contributions to historicism during the reign of Frederick III. of Prussia
• German story of Rudolf of Habsburg until the time of Frederick the Great (three parts)
• To proportionality
• Floor plan of the general history as a guide for the teaching of history in high schools (three parts)
• On the political history of Germany ( collection of essays )
• Political Catechism for the free German people, in 1848, published by Westermann, Braunschweig ( three books, anonymous)