HAGENEACH, hatgen-bfici, KARL RUDOLF (1801-74). A German theologian. He was born March 4, 1801, at Basel, where his father was pro fessor of anatomy and botany. After being pro fessor extraordinary 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 and nine teenth centuries, which were gathered into a col lected edition (1869-72) , and after his death edited by F. Nippold (Leipzig, 1885-87). The portion relating to the history of the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland was translated by 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—A Text-Book of the History of Doctrine (orig. Leip
zig, 1840; 6th ed. by Benrath, 1888; trans. from the 5th ed., Edinburgh, 1880) ; and his Theo logical Methodology (orig. 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, 1858-75), and a poet (Gedichte, Basel, 1846). He edited the Kirchenblatt fur reformierte Schweiz (from 1845 to 1868) ; also the valuable series of biographies of the reformers of the Reformed Church, with selections from their writings (Leben and Sehriften der Viiter and Hegriinder der reformierten Kirche, Elber feld, 1857-62, 10 vols.), to which he contributed the lives of CF1colampadius and Myconius (1859). He died in Basel, June 7, 1874. Consult his brief autobiography in Erinnerungen an K. R. Hagen bath (Basel, 1874) ; and the fuller sketch by Eppler (Gtitersloh, 1875).