Education
He studied theology in Berlin from 1827 to 1831, but later turned to religio-critical Hegelianism.
He studied theology in Berlin from 1827 to 1831, but later turned to religio-critical Hegelianism.
Köppen was from a born in a pastor"s family of Altmark. After his studies and military service in 1833, he taught at the secondary school Dorotheenstädtischer. In 1840 he became one of the most active associates of Arnold Ruge and published Hallischen Jahrbücher (1841: Deutsche Jahrbücher).
He wrote many reviews on political and scientific literature. Contemporary journalistic practice has been by strongly influenced his opinions reviews.
He was one of the Young Hegelians. He thus began a renewal of the Enlightenment as Köppen"s criticism of classical literature, idealist philosophy and Romanticism.