Karl Friedrich Köppen
Karl Friedrich Köppen was a German teacher and political journalist. He was one of the Young Hegelians.Life
Köppen was from a born in a pastor's family in Altmark. He studied theology at the University of Berlin from 1827 to 1831, but later turned to religio-critical Hegelianism. After his studies and military service in 1833, he taught at the secondary school Dorotheenstädtischer. In 1837, he met Karl Marx, with whom he developed a close friendship. In 1840 he became one of the most active associates of Arnold Ruge and published Hallischen Jahrbücher. He wrote many reviews on political and scientific literature. Contemporary journalistic practice has been by strongly influenced his opinions reviews. He thus began a renewal of the Enlightenment as Köppen's criticism of classical literature, idealist philosophy and Romanticism. Köppen's views were deeply indebted to Karl Marx and he dedicated his book Frederick the Great and his Opponents to Marx.
He died in Berlin.Works
- Literarische Einleitung in die nordische Mythologie. Berlin: Bechtold und Hartje, 1837
- . Leipzig: Verlag Otto Wigand, 1840
- Die Religion des Buddha. 2 vol., Berlin: F. Schneider 1857–1859. ,
- Hexen und Hexenprozesse. Zur Geschichte des Abgerglaubens und des ingnisitorischen Prozesses. 2. Aufl., Leipzig: O. Wigand, 1858
- Ausgewählte Schriften. edited by Heinz Pepperle. 2 vol., Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, 2003
