Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) was a German philosopher and the culminating figure of German classical idealism. Born in Stuttgart and died of cholera in Berlin in 1831, he served as a lecturer at the University of Jena, headmaster of a Nuremberg secondary school, and professor at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin, becoming president of the University of Berlin in 1830. Hegel built a vast objective idealist system centered on "absolute spirit" and systematically elaborated dialectics; his thought has deeply influenced later philosophy, law, history, and social and cultural studies. The library holds 10 of his works, including The Phenomenology of Spirit, Science of Logic, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, Lectures on the History of Philosophy, The Philosophy of History, and three editions of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences, as well as a collection of his classic works in He Lin's Chinese translations.