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See also:RITTER VON KARL HEINRICH See also:LANG (1764-1835)
, See also:German historian, was See also:born on the 7th of See also:June 1764 at Balgheim, near See also:Nordlingen
.
From the first he was greatly attracted towards See also:historical studies, and this was shown when he began to attend the gymnasium of Oettingen, and in 1782, when he went to the university of See also:Altdorf, near See also:Nuremberg
.
At the same See also:time he studied See also:jurisprudence, and in 1782 became a See also:government clerk at Oettingen
.
About the same See also:period began his activities as a journalist and publicist
.
But See also:Lang did not See also:long remain an See also:official
.
He was of a restless, changeable See also:character, which constantly involved him in See also:personal quarrels, though he was equally See also:quick to retire from them
.
In 1788 he obtained a position as private See also:tutor in See also:Hungary, and in 1789 became private secretary to See also:Baron von Biihler, the See also:envoy of See also:Wurttemberg at See also:Vienna
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This led to further travels and to his entering the service of the See also:prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein
.
In 1792 Lang again betook himself to a university, this time to See also:Gottingen
.
Here he came under the See also:influence of the historian, See also:Ludwig See also:Timotheus Spittler, from whom, as also from Johannes von See also:
When in 1805 the principalities became See also:part of Bavaria, Lang entered the Bavarian service (18o6), was ennobled in 18o8 and from 1810 to 1817 held the See also:office of archivist in See also:Munich
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He again devoted himself with See also:great See also:enthusiasm to historical studies, which naturally dealt chiefly with Bavarian See also:history
.
He evolved the theory, among other things, that the boundaries of the old counties or pagi (Gaue) were identical with those of the dioceses
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This theory was combated in later days, and caused great confusion in the See also:province of historical See also:geography
.
For the See also:rest, Lang did great service to the study of the history of Bavaria, especially by bringing fresh material from the archives to See also:bear upon it
.
He also kept up his activity as a publicist, in 1814 defending in a detailed and somewhat biassed pamphlet the policy of the See also:minister See also:Montgelas, and he undertook See also:critical studies in the history of °the See also:Jesuits
.
In 1817 Lang retired from active See also:life, and until his See also:death, which took See also:place on the 26th of See also: (On the occasion of the congress of Rastadt, 1798); Der Minister See also:Graf von Montgelas (1814); Geschichte der Jesuiten in Bayern (1819); and Bayerns Gauen (Nuremberg, 1830) . See K . Th. v . See also:Heigel, Augsburger allgemeine Zeitung for 1878, p . 1969 et seq., 1986 et seq . (Beilage of the 14th and 15th of May) ; F . Muncker, in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, vol. xvii . (1883) ; F . X. v . \Wegele, Geschichte der deutschen Historiographic (1885) . (J . |
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