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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: Stuttgart Gymnasium
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Hegel was born in Stuttgart on August 27, 1770, the son of Georg Ludwig Hegel, a revenue officer with the Duchy of Wurttemburg. Eldest of three children (his younger brother, Georg Ludwig, died young as an officer with Napoleon during the Russian campaign), he was brought up in an atmosphere of Protestant pietism. His mother was teaching him Latin before he began school, but died when he was 11. He was very attached to his sister, Christiane, who later developed a manic jealousy of Hegel’s wife when he married at age 40 and committed suicide three months after his death. Hegel was deeply concerned by his sister’s psychosis and developed ideas of psychiatry based on concepts of dialectics.
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Born on 27 August 1770 in Stuttgart, Hegel, the eldest of three children, was the son of a minor civil servant at the ducal court. His sister Christiane was born in 1773, the younger brother, Georg Ludwig, in 1776. Christiane was devoted to her family, especially to her older brother; she never married, and during what some described as a period of mental instability, committed suicide shortly after Hegel’s death. Georg Ludwig became an officer and died in Napoleon’s army in 1812. Their mother, Maria Magdalena née Fromme, who died in 1784, was unusually educated for a woman of her time. She taught Hegel Latin declension when he was six, and inspired a life-long affection in him.
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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.
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Hegel was born on 27 August 1770 in Stuttgart as a son of a Württemberg official. In 1788, he entered the Stift Theological Seminary in nearby Tübingen to prepare for a career as a Protestant clergyman. F.W.J. Schelling (1775-1854) and F. Hölderlin (1770-1843) were his room-mates, and the intellectual exchanges with them influenced Hegel’s thought in many ways. Upon his graduation in 1793, Hegel did not enter ministry but became a private tutor in Berne, Switzerland. He remained there until 1796.
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Hegel was born in Stuttgart on August 27, 1770. As a child he was a voracious reader of literature, newspapers, philosophical essays, and writings on various other topics. In part, Hegel's literate childhood can be attributed to his uncharacteristically progressive mother who actively nurtured her children's intellectual development. The Hegels were a well-established middle class family in Stuttgart. His father was a civil servant in the administrative government of Württemberg. Georg was a sickly child and almost died of illness before he was six.
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Hegel was born in 1770 in Stuttgart, Germany. He spent 1788-1793 as a theology student in nearby Tübingen, where he developed close friendships with students there, including the great romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) and the philosopher Friedrich W.J. von Schelling (1775-1854). Until around 1800, Hegel was devoted to developing ideas on religious and social themes. He apparently saw himself as an educational reformer, hoping to follow in the footsteps of Lessing and Schiller, both important figures in the German Enlightenment.
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