HAGEN. 440 HAGENBACH. HAGEN, or HAGEN VON TRONEGE, lia'- geii I'liii trO'iit-gc:. t>iie of the must }JovcrIul creations of old (jiermaii myth. His early life is spent as a hostage at the Court of Attila, from which he escapes with Gunther. He carries out Brunhilil's vengeance bj' murdering Siegfried, and is finally captured l>y Dietrich von Bern and taken before Kricndiild. who slays him with .Sieg- fried's sword wlien lie refuses to disclose the Nibelungeu treastire. HAGEN, August (1797-1880). A German atithor. He was born and educated at Kiinigs- berg, Prussia, and became professor of the history of art and literature at the University of Kiinigs- berg, in which capacity he founded the art society and the city museimi. His novel entitled Xorica (6th ed. 1887; Eng. trans. 1851) treats of the art life of Nuremberg. His Kunstlcrgeschichten (1833-40) are also justly celebrated. HAGEN, Fkiedrich Heinbich von der ( 1780- 185ti). A German philologist, born at Schmiede- berg, and educated at Halle (1797-1800). In 1810 he became professor of German literature at the University of Berlin, then newly estab- lished. In the following year he was called to Breslau, and in 1821 was reinstalled at Berlin University, where he was four times dean of the pl^losophical faculty. He did mtieh to stimti- late interest in Germanic literature, though his critical methods have been superseded. His prin- cipal works include: ErziihUinrjen iind Miirchen (2d ed. 1838); Xordi'ichc Hclclenromane (1814- 28) ; Tauscndundeiii Tag. Morgenlandische Er- zuhluncjcn (1838) ; and Uchcr die altcsten Dar- sielluiigcui der Faustsuge (1844). HAGEN, GOTTHILF (1797-1884). A German hydraulic engineer. He was born and educated at Kc'inigsberg, Prussia, and at first devoted him- self to astronomy. In 1816, on behalf of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, he observed at Kulm the total eclipse of the sun, and in 1831 was appointed instructor at the Prussian Artillery and Engineering School, and also taught hy- draulic engineering at the Academy of Architec- ture. He designed and directed the construction of the naval harbor at Wilhelmsliafen, on the Jade estuary (completed 1869), and now one of the principal fortified naval stations on the North Sea. In 1869 he was appointed director- in-chief of the building department of Prussia. His principal publications are the following: Handbiirh der Waxserhaiikunst (1841-0.')), an exhaustive work which has passed through sev- eral editions ; Grundziigc der Wahrsch-einlichlceits- rechnung (3d ed. 1882) ; Vcber Form nnd Stiirke geioiilbtcr Bogcn (2d ed. 1874) ; and Uchcr die ghichfiirmige Bcircgiing dcs Wasscrs (1876). HAGEN, Karl Gottfried (1749-1829). A German pliysician and apothecary, born at Kc'i- nigsberg, Prussia. He was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Konigsberg in 1779, and professor of chemistry, physics, and natural history in 1807. His lectures, which he continued until his death, exercised a far-reach- ing influence. His best-known work is Lehrhuch der Aiiothrkerlunst (8th ed. 1829). HAGEN, Otto voi^ (1817-80). A German fcrester. born at llsenburfr. and educated at Ber- lin and at the Academy of Forestry in Rberswalde. In 1863 he was appointed chief of the Prussian department of forestry and curator of the Acad- emy of Forestry at Eberswalde, and in 1868 was made curator of the Academy of Forestry at iMUnden. His principal work is entitled Die fursllichen 'crhaltnisse I'rcusseus (3d ed. 1894). HAGEN, Theodor (1842—). A German painter, liorn at Dusseldorf. He was the pupil of Andreas and Karl Miiller at the Diisseldorf Academy, and afterwards of Oswald Aclienliach. In 1871 he was appointed professor, and in 1877 director, of the art school at Weimar, but re- signed both positions in 1880. At the exposition of 1891 in Berlin he was awarded a gold medal. His landscapes, which are in the manner of Kuys- dael, include the following: "View of Kander- thal, Switzerland;" "A Storm;" "A Village in Spring;" "Saint Gothard;" "View of Schevenin- gen;" "View of Zons Near Diisseldorf" (Dresden Gallery). HAGENA'U, ha'gc-nou. Capital of the circle of the same name in Lower Alsace, Germany, situated on the iloder, 18 miles north of Strass- burg (Jlap: Germany, B 4). It manufactures 'oolen .yarn, chinaware, and beer. Hoi)s are raised extensively in the vicinity. The town had its origin in a hunting seat belonging to the father of Frederick Barbarossa. It was strongly fortified by the latter, and in 1164 obtained a constittition and special privileges. It became a free town in 1257, and in the fourteenth century was at the head of the league of Alsatian free towns. By the Treaty of Westphalia, Hagenau passed to France, and its fortifications were destroyed in 1673. In 1871 it came into the po.ssession of Germanv. Population, in 1890, 14,752; in 1900, 17,968. ' HAGENBACH, hii'gcn-biiG, Karl Rudolf (1801-74). A German theologian. He was born ilarch 4. 1801, at Basel, where his father was pro- ftssor of anatomy and botany. After being pro- fessor c.vtraordinary at Basel (1824). he became full professor in 1828. He lectured to public au- diences, and afterwards published several courses of lectures on the nature and history of the Ref- ormation, on the early history of the Church, and on the Church history of the eighteenth ;ind nine- ttenth centuries, which were gathered into a col- lected edition ( 1869-72) , and after his death edited by F. Xippold (Leipzig, 188o-S7K The portion relating to the history of the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland was translated b^' E. Moore (Edinburgh, 1878-79), and that on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by J. F. Hurst (New York, 1869). Two other of his popular yet scholarly works have been translated — .4 Text-Book of the Historii of Doctrine (oris. Leip- zig, 1840; 0th ed. bv Benrath, 1888; trans, from the 5th ed.. Edinburgh, 1880) ; and his Theo- loqicul Eiiciicloftccdid mid MeHiodoloi/i/ (oris. Leipzig, 1833; 12th ed. by Reischle. 1889 ; worked over by Crooks and Hurst, New York, 1884: new ed. 1891). He was an admired preacher (Pre- digten, Basel, 1858-73), and a poet {Gediehte, Basel. 1846). He edited the Kirchenhlatf fiir die reforiiiicrte Scliirei:; (from 1845 to 1868) ; also the valu.ible series of biographies of the reformers of the Reformed Church, with selections from their writings (Lehen mid flchriftcn der Viiter mid Bcfiriinder der reformierten Kirehe, Elber- feld. 1857-62. 10 vols.), to which he contributed the lives of fficolampadius and Mvconius (1859). He died in Basel, Jtine 7, 1874. Consult his brief autobiography in Erinnerungen an K. R. IJageii-
