HAGENEACH, KARL German theologian, was b. Mar. 4. 1801, at Basel, where his father, Karl Friedrich Hagenbach. author of the Tcntamen Flora Raeileemsis, was professor of anatomy and botany. While at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, he became acquainted with the direction given to theology by Sehleiermacher; and on his return to Basel, he received, from his intercourse with De Wette, a fresh impulse to the development of his theological opinions. After being an extraordinary professor, he became ordinary professor of theology in. 1828, becoming an honorary doctor of theology in 1830. He delivered to public audiences beyond the university, and after wards published through the press, several courses of lectures on the nature and history of the reformation it. d, Reformation, 6 vols. 1834-43: 2d ed., 1851-56), on the early history of the church (Aeltere Kirchengesch, 2d ed., 1S57-63), and on the church history of the 18th and 19th centuries (Kirchengesch, d. 18 u. 19 Jahrh.,
2 vols., 3d ed., 1856, translated into English). His tabular view of the history of dogmas (1828), and his compend of the same department of historical theology (Lehr buth, d. Dogmengesch., 2 vols., 4th ed., 1857, translated into English), are highly praised. His Encyklopadie it. Methodologie d ftheologischen Wissensehaften is one of the most use ful manuals for the student of German theology, and its popularity in Germany has necesilated nine editions. A history of evangelical Protestantism. several volumes of sermons, a memorial of De Wette, and a work on religious education in the gymnasia, have also conic from his and. he gave proof of his poetical,Mleuts in two small volumes of pootrYi',andlu:a.c011eetirSii.'oLpoentitied,,Lutkei;.;a: Seine Zeit. Hagen back died in 1874.—Of Hagenbach's brothers, JOHANN JAKOB gained distinction as an entomologist, and EDUARD as a physiologist.