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Hegel was appointed University Rector of the university in October 1829, but his term ended in September 1830. Hegel was deeply disturbed by the riots for reform in Berlin in that year.
- Youth in Stuttgart Andtübingen
- “Hofmeister” in Berne Andfrankfurt
- Jena: Strugglingfor A Living as A Professor
- Waiting For Fame Inbamberg and Nuremberg
- Coronationof A Dream: Professorships in Heidelberg and Berlin
- Hegel’s Last Years in Berlin
- About Thisbiography, Sources Used, Acknowledgements
GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL (his close family called him simply,“Wilhelm”) was born in Stuttgart on the 27th of August 1770. His father Georg Ludwig (1733-1799)born in Tübingen to a family of civil servants and pastors, was anordinary revenue officer in the fiscal service of Württemberg (1766 “Rentkammersekretär”,1796 “Rentenkammer-Expeditionsrat...
Hegel did not enter the ministry after leaving college, rather,hoping for some leisure to study philosophy and Greek literature, hebecame a private tutor. In 1793, withthe help of Johannes Brodhag (Innkeeper of Schiller’s favourite Inn inStuttgart, the “Ochsen”), Hegel obtained work in Berne, tutoring thechildren of Captain Karl Friedrich von Steig...
Natural circumstances eventually helped Hegel fulfill his aspirationswhen his father died in January 1799.Hegel received a modest inheritance, 3,154 gulden, that enabled him tothink once more of a studious life. At the close of 1800 we find him asking Schelling forletters of introduction to Bamberg, where with cheap living and goodbeer he hoped to ...
On October 14th, 1806, Napoleonarrived at Jena. Hegel, like Goethe, felt no patriotic shudder at thenational disaster, and in Prussia he saw only a corrupt and conceitedbureaucracy. Writing to his friend F. J. Niethammer (1766-1848)on the day before the battle, he speaks of the “world-soul”, theemperor, and with satisfaction of the probable overthr...
Towards the close of Hegel’s eighth session three professorships werealmost simultaneously put within his grasp at Erlangen, Berlin andHeidelberg. The Prussian offer included a doubt that his long absencefrom university teaching might have made him rusty, so Hegel acceptedthe position at Heidelberg, as Fries had just gone to Jena (October 1816). On...
A Hegelian school began to gather. The followers included intelligentpupils, empty-headed imitators, and romantics who turned philosophy intolyric measures. Opposition and criticism only served to define moreprecisely the adherents of the new school. In the narrower circle of hisfriends, Hegel’s birthdays were the catalysts for congratulatory verse...
This Hegel biography is based on the Hegelarticle in the “Encyclopaedia Britannica” of 1911, written byEnglish Hegelians at the time. All links, additions and corrections byHegel.Net authors Kai FroebandMaurizio Canfora according to the latest Hegel research. In addition to the sources cited in the text, the following authorsand works were consulte...
- Kai Froeb, Maurizio Canfora
- 2021
3 days ago · Hegel worked as a private tutor (1793–1801), an unpaid lecturer (1801–05) and extraordinary professor (1805–07) at the University of Jena, a newspaper editor (1807–08), a rector of an academic preparatory school (1808–16), and a professor of philosophy at the Universities of Heidelberg (1816–18) and (1818–31).
- In Stuttgart, Hegel’s birthplace, he attended grammar schools from the age of three and the Gymnasium Illustre, an academic preparatory school, fro...
- Hegel worked as a private tutor (1793–1801), an unpaid lecturer (1801–05) and extraordinary professor (1805–07) at the University of Jena, a newspa...
- Hegel’s major works included the Phenomenology of Spirit (1807; also called the Phenomenology of Mind); the Science of Logic, in two parts (1812 an...
- Hegel was the last of the great system builders of Western philosophy and the greatest and most extravagant representative of the school of absolut...
A year later, Hegel became headmaster of a school in Nuremberg. Hegel's prospects were transformed in 1816, when he was offered posts by several universities. He worked for two years at Heidelberg, before moving in 1818 to become Professor of Philosophy at the University of Berlin.
Feb 13, 1997 · In 1816 he managed to return to his university career by being appointed to a chair in philosophy at the University of Heidelberg, but shortly after, in 1818, he was offered and took up the chair of philosophy at the University of Berlin, the most prestigious position in the German philosophical world.
Apr 30, 2020 · In the summer of 1816, Hegel accepted an offer from the University of Heidelberg and thus finally fulfilled his long-standing hopes of becoming a salaried professor and of being installed at the University of Heidelberg, of which he had dreamed since leaving Jena.
Jan 21, 2023 · Hegel held that position for 2 years before, with help from Niethammer, he took on the role of rector at the Aegidien-Gymnasium in Nürnberg, Kingdom of Bavaria in 1808 until 1816. His time as a rector was largely successful; he oversaw the modernization and reorganization of Bavarian education, and his lessons and outlines from this time were ...
