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Karl Heinrich Lang was born on June 7, 1764 at Balgheim, near Nordlingen.
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Karl Heinrich Lang was born on June 7, 1764 at Balgheim, near Nordlingen.
From the first he was greatly attracted towards historical studies, and this was shown when he began to attend the gymnasium of Oettingen, and in 1782, when he went to the university of Altdorf, near Nuremberg.
At the same time he studied jurisprudence, and in 1782 became a government clerk at Oettingen.
In 1788 he obtained a position as private tutor in Hungary, and in 1789 became private secretary to Baron von Biihler, the envoy of Wiirttemberg at Vienna.
In 1792 Lang again betook himself to a university, this time to Gottingen.
Here he came under the influence of the historian, Ludwig Timotheus Spittler, from whom, as also from Johannes von Muller and Friedrich Schlegel, his historical studies received a fresh impulse.
At intervals from 1793 to 1801 Lang was closely connected with the Prussian statesman Hardenberg, who employed him as his private secretary and archivist, and in 1797 he was present with Hardenberg at the congress of Rastadt as secretary to the legation. When in 1805 the principalities became part of Bavaria, Lang entered the Bavarian service (1806), was ennobled in 1808 and from 18ioto 1817 held the office of archivist in Munich.
He evolved the theory, among other things, that the boundaries of the old counties or pagi (Gaue) were identical with those of the dioceses.
For the rest, Lang did great service to the study of the history of Bavaria, especially by bringing fresh material from the archives to bear upon it.
He also kept up his activity as a publicist, in 1814 defending in a detailed and somewhat biassed pamphlet the policy of the minister Montgelas, and he undertook critical studies in the history of-the Jesuits.
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He was of a restless, changeable character, which constantly involved him in personal quarrels, though he was equally quick to retire from them.