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Article: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , 1770-1831, German philosopher, b. Stuttgart; son of a government clerk.
Life and Works
Educated in theology at Tübingen, Hegel was a private tutor at Bern and Frankfurt. In 1801 he became
privatdocent
[tutor] and in 1805 professor at the Univ. of Jena. While considered a follower of Schelling, he was developing his own system, which he first presented in
Phenomenology of Mind
(1807). During the Napoleonic occupation Hegel edited (1807-8) a newspaper, which he left to become rector (1808-16) of a
Gymnasium
at Nuremberg. He then returned to professorships at Heidelberg (1816-18) and Berlin (1818-31), where he became famous.
In his lectures at ...