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GAGERN, HANS CHRISTOPH See also:ERNST, See also:BARON VON (1766-'852) , See also:German statesman and See also:political writer, was See also:born at Kleinniedesheim, near See also:Worms, on the 25th of See also:January 1766. After studying See also:law at the See also:universities of See also:Leipzig and See also:Gottingen, he entered the service of the See also:prince of See also:Nassau-See also:Weilburg, whom in 1791 he represented at the imperial See also:diet. He was afterwards appointed the prince's See also:envoy at See also:Paris, where he remained till the See also:decree of See also:Napoleon, forbidding all persons born on the See also:left See also:side of the See also:Rhine to serve any other See also:state than See also:France, compelled him to resign his See also:office (1811). He then retired to See also:Vienna, and in 1812 he took See also:part in the See also:attempt to excite a second insurrection against Napoleon in See also:Tirol. On the failure of this attempt he left See also:Austria and joined the headquarters of the Prussian See also:army (1813), and became a member of the See also:board of See also:administration for See also:north See also:Germany. In 1814 he was appointed See also:administrator of the See also:Orange principalities; and, when the prince of Orange became See also:king of the See also:Netherlands, Baron Gagern became his See also:prime See also:minister. In 1815 he represented him at the See also:congress of Vienna, and succeeded in obtaining for the Netherlands a considerable See also:augmentation of territory. From 1816 to 1818 he was See also:Luxemburg envoy at the German diet, but was recalled, at the instance of Metternich, owing to his too See also:independent advocacy of state constitutions. In 182o he retired with a See also:pension to his See also:estate at Hornau, near See also:Hochst, in See also:Hesse-See also:Darmstadt; but as a member of the first chamber of the states of the See also:grand-duchy he continued to take an active See also:share in the promotion of See also:measures for the welfare of his See also:country. He retired from public See also:life in 1848, and died at Hornau on the 22nd of See also:October 1852. Baron von Gagern wrote a See also:history of the German nation (Vienna, 1813; 2nd ed., 2 vols., See also:Frankfort, 1825–1826), and several other books on subjects connected with history and social and political See also:science. Of most permanent value, however, is his autobiography, Mein Anteil an der Politik, 5 vols.

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Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1823–1845).

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