FRIEDRICH HEINRICH VON DER

See also:

• HAGEN
• FRIEDRICH HEINRICH VON DER HAGEN (178o-1856)

HAGEN (178o-1856)  , German philologist, chiefly distinguished for his researches in Old German literature, was born at Schmiedeberg in Brandenburg on the 19th of February 1780 . After studying law at the university of Halle, he obtained a legal appointment in the state service at Berlin, but in 18o6 resigned this office in order to devote himself exclusively to letters . In 1810 he was appointed professor extraordinarius of German literature in the university of Berlin; in the following year he was transferred in a similar capacity to Breslau, and in 1821 returned to Berlin as professor ordinaries . He died at Berlin on the 11th of June 1856 . Although von der Hagen's critical work is now entirely out of date, the chief merit of awakening an interest in old German poetry belongs to him . His principal publications are the Nibelungenlied, of which he issued four editions, the first in 1810 and the last in 1842; the Minnesinger (Leipzig, 1838–1856, 4 vols. in 5 parts) ; Lieder der altern Edda (Berlin, 1812) ; Gottfried von Strassburg (Berlin, 1823) ; a collection of Old German tales under the title Gesamtabenteuer (Stuttgart, 1850, 3 vols.) and Das Heldenbuch (Leipzig, 1855) . He also published fiber die altesten Darstellungen der Faustsage (Berlin, 1844); and from 1835 he edited Das neue Jahrbuch der Berlinischen Gesellschaft fur deutsche Sprache and Altertumskunde . His correspondence with C . G . Heyne and G . F . Benecke was published by K .

Dziatzko (Leipzig, 1893) .