Christian Heinrich von Nagel

Christian Heinrich von Nagel (28 February 1803 in Stuttgart, Germany – 27 October 1882 in Ulm, Germany) was a German geometer.

After attending the gymnasium, Nagel went in 1817 to Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren.

He became mathematics and science teacher at the Lyceum and at the Secondary school in Tübingen.

Already in 1826, he earned doctorate at the local Faculty of Philosophy on a theme De triangulis rectangulis ex algebraica aequatione construendis (About right triangles construable from an algebraic equation).

Until 1830, he held post of a private lecturer in Tübingen.