Karl Rudolf Hagenbach, a German historian, born in Basel, March 4, 1801, died there, June 7, 1874. He studied at Basel, Bonn, and Berlin, adopted the views of Schleiermacher, and in 1828 became professor of theology at Basel. He resigned his professorship shortly before his death. Among his works are: Tabellarische Uebersicht der Dogmengeschichte (1828); Encyklopadie und Methodologie der theologischen Wissenschaften (1833; 7th ed., 1864); Vorlesungen uber Wesen und Geschichte der Reformation (6 vols., 1834-'43; 2d ed., 1851-6); Kirchengeschichte des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts (2 vols., 2d ed., 1848-9; English translation, "History of the Church in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," London, 1869); Lehrbuch der Dogmengeschichte (2 vols., 1840-'41; 4th ed., 1857; English translation, "History of Doctrines," 3d ed., Edinburgh, 1858); Geschichte der theologischen Schule Basels (1860); Grundlinien der Homi-letik und Liturgik (1863); and Vorlesungen uber die Kirchengeschichte von der altesten Zeit bis zum 19. Jahrhundert (new and revised complete ed., 1868-72). He has also published a poem, Luther und seine Zeit (1838), and Gedichte (1846; 2d ed., 1863); and since 1845 he has edited the Kirchenblatt fur die reformirte Schweiz.