Karl Heinrich Lang
Karl Heinrich Lang, since 1808 Ritter von Lang ( born June 7, 1764 in Balgheim of Nördlingen, † March 26, 1835 in Ansbach ) was a German historian and publicist.
Life
Karl Heinrich Lang was the son of the priest Konstantin Lang and his wife Sophie Buttersack. His grandfather was a director of the chamber counts of Wallerstein. After long had gone through his school lessons by a private tutor, he began in 1782 at the University of Altdorf to study law. In the summer of 1785, he broke from this study not finish and got a job in the administration of family Oettingen- Spielberg and Oettingen -Wallerstein.
1791 Lang left his position and went to Vienna. There he earned his living as a private tutor in various noble families and was also the secretary of the Württemberg envoy to the court of Vienna. 1790 Long returned back to Wallerstein and worked in the house of Oettingen also as secretary. Dissatisfied with the policy of his employer Lang in 1792 went to study at the University of Göttingen to there Kameralwissenschaften and politics. 1793 ended this long study not finish, but got as winners of the University of employment in the Prussian civil service.
Although Long had become in Tübingen avid follower of the ideas Justus Moser, Christian Friedrich Spittler, August Ludwig von Schlozer and Wilhelm Ludwig Wekhrlins, he understood very well with Minister Karl August von Hardenberg. 1795 Long became the First archivist in Bayreuth and as such he married the following year in Truppach Friederike Ammon, but which died after only a year of marriage in 1797.
1797 took long with Hardenberg part in the Congress of Rastatt. Funded by his employer entrusted to Long in 1798 (now War and Domänenrat ) the handling and administration of the feudal and ecclesiastical matters. 1799 Long married his second wife Henrietta Maria von Reitz Stone, a daughter of the Forestry Master Adam Reitz stone; with her he had a son.
1801 Lang's second wife died, and after the obligatory year of mourning married in 1802 in Erlangen long Luise Sophie, the widow of Dr. Johann Adam scoop.
As 1806, the Principality of Ansbach was slammed at the request of Napoleon the Kingdom of Bavaria, Long was transferred to the Bavarian civil service. It gave him the management of the administration of the Rezatkreises and the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph gave Lang 1808 the Knight's Cross of Merit of the Bavarian crown, with which he was raised in the Bavarian personal knighthood.
In 1810, when the newly established General State Archives in Munich began its work, was summoned to the long line. In 1812 he took over the presidency of the imperial herald Office. Dissatisfied with the political situation in Bavaria, and also by the personal animosity from his work, he resigned his offices and left Munich. As a government official, he returned to the Rezatkreis. There he founded - so to speak privately - with the Historical Society of Rezatkreises the first regional historical society in Bavaria.
As Minister of Maximilian Montgelas due to its Ansbacher Mémoires in 1817 by King Maximilian I Joseph was released, and long, bitterly left by the political development, the Bavarian civil service.
Long developed a wide publishing and journalistic activities and published several historical books. On him the source of the work Regesta Boica goes back. He became famous but published in historical research primarily for his posthumous memoirs in 1842, where he rang up mercilessly with his contemporaries as well as with the political situation. Due to the polemical style gave you this work for a long time to be untrue, and only the historian Adalbert of Raumer could prove that all the facts had been quite accurately described and correctly. From Raumer used as sources such as Paul Johann Anselm von Feuerbach (1775-1833) " Strange Criminal Cases " (1808 /11) or " acts Moderate representation strange crime" ( 1828/1829 ). However, this suffered the same fate as the work of Lang: You were a long time as fictional detective and horror stories viewed until they were discovered in 2007 as a rich source for Bavarian biography and local history.
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 Bibliotheca Franconica. Facsimile edition of 1842, Palm & Enke, Erlangen 1984. Epilogue Heinrich von Mosch. )
- Reverendi in Christo patris Jacobi Marelli S. J. amores e scriniis provinciae Superioris Germaniae Monachii nuper apertis brevi libello exposure. Munich, 1815 (see: Jakob Marell )