Karl Gottfried Hagen

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

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

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 Wilhelm Bessel, and his daughter Louise Florentine married the physicist Franz Ernst Neumann. He was father of Carl Heinrich Hagen and Ernst August Hagen, and grandfather of Hermann August Hagen and Adolf Hermann Hagen.