Friedrich Christian August Hasse

Friedrich Christian August Hasse (4 January 1773, in Rehfeld – 6 February 1848, in Leipzig) was a German historian.

He was the father of pathologist Karl Ewald Hasse (1810–1902).

[1] He studied legal science, philosophy and history at the University of Wittenberg, and from 1798 was an associate professor at the cadet institute in Dresden.

From 1828 to 1848 he was a professor of auxiliary sciences of history at the University of Leipzig, where in 1840/41 he served as dean to the faculty of philosophy.

[2] He made important contributions as an editor to Ersch und Gruber’s Encyklopädie and especially to Brockhaus's Conversations-Lexikon.