Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Notable Biographies

(27/08/1770 - 1831/11/14)

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher

"The man who is not able to fight for freedom, is not a man, is a servant"
Hegel
He was born on August 27, 1770 in Stuttgart, the son of an official of the Treasury.
He studied Greek and Latin Classics at the gymnasium of Stuttgart. His father wished that you became Protestant pastor, so entered the Seminary of the University of Tübingen in 1788 where he befriended poet Friedrich Hölderlin and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling philosopher.
He was tutor in Bern (Switzerland) in the year 1793. Two years later died his father, leaving him an inheritance that allowed him to leave his job as a tutor. In 1801 he entered at the University of Jena. There was completed the phenomenology of spirit(1807), one of his most important works.
Regarded as the last of the great metaphysical, Hegel made fundamental contributions in a variety of fields of human reflection, which include the philosophy of history, aesthetics, and social ethics. In terms of history, its two key explanatory categories are the reason and freedom. The works presented under the generic title of lessons, include Philosophy of fine arts (1835-1838), lessons from the history of philosophy (1833-1836), lessons in philosophy of religion (1832), and lessons on the philosophy of history (1837). It remained in Jena until October 1806, when the city was occupied by the French and was forced to escape.
When he exhausted the resources of their inheritance, he worked as Editor at the newspaper Bamberger Zeitung of Bavaria, later moved to Nuremberg where he was director of a gymnasium for eight years. During your stay in Nuremberg, he married Marie von Tucher, who had three children: a girl, who died shortly after birth, and two males, Karl and Immanuel. Before his marriage, he had an illegitimate son, Ludwig, who would end up living with them.
He published after seven years of work Science of logic (1812, 1813, 1816). In 1816 he held the Chair of philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and published his philosophical thoughts in his encyclopedia of the philosophical Sciences (1817). In the year 1818 he moved to the University of Berlin, where he remained until his death on 14 November 1831, victim of a cholera epidemic.
His last published work was the philosophy of right (1821), although some notes of his lectures, together with notes of his students, were also published after his death.