Born: March 4, 1801, Basel, Switzerland.
Died: June 7 1874, Basel, Switzerland.
Hagenbach was the son of C. F. Hagenbach, professor of medicine at Basel.
He studied at the Universities of Basel, Bonn, and Berlin, returning to Basel in 1823 as a university lecturer on church history. He was appointed professor of church history in 1829.
Hagenbach’s hymns appeared mainly in his Gedichte (Basel, Switzerland: 1846), a book of poems.
His other works include: