Karl Gottfried Hagen

Karl Gottfried Hagen (24 December 1749 – 2 March 1829) was a German chemist.

Karl Gottfried Hagen
Karl Gottfried Hagen
Born(1749-12-24)24 December 1749
Died2 March 1829(1829-03-02) (aged 79)
NationalityGermany
Scientific career
Fieldschemist
InstitutionsUniversity of Königsberg

Hagen was born and died in Königsberg, Prussia.

He founded the first German chemical laboratory at the University of Königsberg, thus establishing the scientific discipline of pharmaceutical chemistry in Germany. He worked as a Professor in the field of physics, chemistry and mineralogy.

His daughter, Johanna, married the astronomer Friedrich Bessel.

Another daughter, Louise Florentine, married the physicist Franz Ernst Neumann.

Works

References

  • Klemme, Heiner F., ed. (2016). The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 288–9. ISBN 9781474256001.


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