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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1770 - 1831

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a 19th-century German idealist. His influence extends across a wide range of topics from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy and the philosophy of art and religion. Born in 1770 in Stuttgart, Holy Roman Empire, during the transitional period between the Enlightenment and the Romantic movement in the Germanic regions of Europe, Hegel lived through and was influenced by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. His fame rests chiefly upon the Phenomenology of Spirit, the Science of Logic, and his teleological account of history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is the 22nd most popular philosopher (down from 19th in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Germany (down from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Philosopher.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is most famous for his dialectical philosophy, which is a system of thought that moves through thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ranks 22 out of 1,267. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche, Thales of Miletus, Heraclitus, Thomas Aquinas, Diogenes, and Erasmus. After him are John Locke, Arthur Schopenhauer, Montesquieu, Democritus, Seneca the Younger, and Epicurus.

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Among people born in 1770, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ranks 2. Before him is Ludwig van Beethoven. After him are Frederick William III of Prussia, Friedrich Hölderlin, Bertel Thorvaldsen, Louis-Nicolas Davout, William Wordsworth, William Clark, Louis-Gabriel Suchet, François Gérard, Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, and Adam Jerzy Czartoryski. Among people deceased in 1831, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ranks 1. After him are Carl von Clausewitz, James Monroe, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Sophie Germain, Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Emilia Plater, Achim von Arnim, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ranks 21 out of 7,253. Before him are Johannes Kepler (1571), George Frideric Handel (1685), Joseph Goebbels (1897), Otto von Bismarck (1815), Wilhelm II, German Emperor (1859), and Peter Paul Rubens (1577). After him are Richard Wagner (1813), Karl Benz (1844), Henry Kissinger (1923), Max Weber (1864), Wilhelm Röntgen (1845), and Frederick the Great (1712).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ranks 2. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche (1844). After him are Friedrich Engels (1820), Martin Heidegger (1889), Hannah Arendt (1906), Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762), Nicholas of Cusa (1401), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775), Karl Jaspers (1883), Ludwig Feuerbach (1804), Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846), and Jürgen Habermas (1929).

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