Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen (February 19, 1780 – June 11, 1856) was a German

Germany

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 philologist, chiefly distinguished for his researches in Old German

Old German

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 literature.

He was born at Angermünde

Angermünde

Angermünde is a town in the district of Uckermark in the state of Brandenburg, Germany. It is located on the Mündesee, 43 miles northeast of Berlin on the Berlin–Szczecin railway...

-Schmiedeberg in the Uckermark

Uckermark

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 region of the Margraviate of Brandenburg

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. After studying law at the University of Halle, he obtained a legal appointment in the state service at Berlin, but in 1806 resigned in order to devote himself exclusively to letters. In 1810 he was appointed professor extraordinarius of German literature at the University of Berlin

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 in the following year he was transferred in a similar capacity to the University of Breslau, and in 1821 returned to Berlin as professor ordinarius. Although von der Hagen's critical work is now entirely out of date, he is credited with awakening an interest in old German poetry.

Principal publications:

• the Nibelungenlied
  Nibelungenlied
  The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfried at the court of the Burgundians, how he was murdered, and of his wife Kriemhild's revenge....
  
  , 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 Gesammtabenteuer (Stuttgart, 1850, 3 vol.)
• Das Heldenbuch (Leipzig, 1855).
• Die Thidrekssaga.

He also published Über die älteslen Darstellungen der Faustsage (Berlin, 1844); and from 1835 he edited Das neue Jahrbuch der Berlinischen Gesellschaft der deutsche Sprache und Altertumskunde. His correspondence with Christian Gottlob Heyne

Christian Gottlob Heyne

Christian Gottlob Heyne was a German classical scholar and archaeologist as well as long-time director of the Göttingen State and University Library.-Biography:He was born in Chemnitz, Electorate of Saxony...

 and Georg Friedrich Benecke

Georg Friedrich Benecke

Georg Friedrich Benecke was a German philologist. In 1814 he became professor at the University of Göttingen. Benecke was editor of a dictionary to Hartmann von Aue's Ywain .- External links :...

was published by K Dziatzko (Leipzig, 1893).